The Oval Court

Name: The Oval Court
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de Fontainebleau

It is the oldest courtyard of the castle, inherited from the Middle Ages, whose V layout is irregular. The buildings of this courtyard date for the most part from Francis I. It is He...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Cour de la Fontaine, entrance by the Mariniers

It is the oldest courtyard of the castle, inherited from the Middle Ages, whose V layout is irregular. The buildings of this courtyard date for the most part from Francis I. It was Henry IV who restructured the eastern part of it, building the door of the Baptistery.

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About the location

Château de Fontainebleau

Place du Général de Gaulle 77300 Fontainebleau

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

Palace with 1,500 rooms spread out in the heart of 130 hectares of park and gardens. Residence of the French sovereigns since the 12th century, entirely rebuilt by François I who kept only the keep formerly inhabited by King Saint Louis, and had a sumptuous interior decoration executed by Italian artists under the direction of Rosso and the Primatice (group of artists known as the Fontainebleau School). Notably enlarged by Henri IV, modified from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by his successors, who partly destroyed the decoration of the sixteenth century.
Photo: The Grille d'Honneur and the Cour des Adieux Frédéric Perrot