Free visit of the Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Name: Visita libre al Castillo de La Tour d'Aigues
Start: 2022-09-17T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de La Tour d'Aigues

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

@pareaproduction @Julia D. Nuccio & Océane Breton @ChâteaudeLTA

A Renaissance masterpiece in Provence, the Château de la Tour d'Aigues is located at the foot of the Luberon mountains. Its plans, inspired by the largest castles of Ile de France (Le Louvre, Ecouen, Anet) and the elegant proportions of its façades deserve attention. In the restored rooms, discover the earthenware of the Tour d'Aigues: partially preserved pavement of the French Renaissance, white or ornate earthenware from the factory of Baron Jean-Baptiste Jérôme de Bruny (owner of the castle in the Enlightenment century). Imagine the past splendour of this building as it walked through its courtyard…

About the location

Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Château de La Tour d'Aigues 84240 La Tour-d'Aigues

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The castle of La Tour d'Aigues in Vaucluse, owned by the General Council, houses since 1987, a museum of earthenware. On the occasion of the restoration work of the castle, carried out by the General Council of Vaucluse, and the archaeological excavations carried out from 1976 to 1980, an important set of ceramics, glassware, pavement tiles was brought to light. La Tour d'Aigues was a pottery production centre during the second half of the 18th century thanks to» Jean-Baptiste-Jérôme BRUNY (1724-1795), owner of the castle. This descendant of a family of the great Marseilles bourgeoisie was a scholar, a lover of natural history, medicine, agronomy and a great lover of art. His entrepreneurial spirit, his curiosity, his taste for applied research led him to try various experiments in the most varied fields: thus he created a pottery in a bastide next to the castle, some of whose productions are in the museum. He surrounded himself with artists, researched engravings that could serve as m