CANCELLED - Guided tour of the Rohan site for school children

Name: CANCELLED - Guided tour of the Rohan site for school children
Start: 2020-09-18T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Château, ferme et grange aux dîmes

Visit of the common and the park of the castle

Friday 18 September 2020, 08:30Passed

Conditions

CANCELLED

Mairie de Coupvray

For this guided tour, a round-hour departure from the stable room next to the dovecote is planned. You can see the exhibition Petit patrimoine de Coupvray, created by the Atelier Histoire et Patrimoine.
On the program of the visit: passage in the common (room of the countess, wash house, dovecote, fruit) and in the park, whose new garden inaugurated on May 18, 2019. The visit will be punctuated with comments on the history of the castle and its successive owners.

About the location

Château, ferme et grange aux dîmes

RD 5A 77700 Coupvray

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

The park of the castle with an area of 45 hectares. You can stroll along the pool, contemplate the ruins of the castle, admire the commons and gardens, or simply for the pleasure of the walk. Of the castle of Coupvray, we know neither the architect nor the exact dates of its construction but everything suggests that the sponsor was Hercule de Rohan at the end of the sixteenth century and that its construction was completed in 1603\. For two centuries, the estate was owned by the Rohan-Guéméné house, until it was sold in 1791 to the Tourteau brothers by the Cardinal of Strasbourg. The latter became famous in the "affair of the Queen’s necklace". The Marquis Tourteau d'Orvilliers expanded the park and completed an "English-style" development begun at the end of the 18th century. Étienne de Turenne inherited the estate. He sold it in 1869 to the 3rd Duke of Treviso, grandson of Marshal Mortier. Between 1916 and 1956 the estate passed from the Count of Kerveguen to his daughter Thérèse, wi