Saint-Justin · Landes
The park of two-hundred-year-old trees at Fondat
Fondat at Saint-Justin in the Landes, rebuilt in the mid-seventeenth century and remade in a neo-Renaissance style in the nineteenth, stands in a park of bicentenary trees of exotic species, with remains of a seventeenth-century ordering; château, park and dependencies were listed in 1999.
From the source
Domaine de Fondat is a château at Saint-Justin, Landes, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record describes a domain held by one noble family from 1607 to the end of the nineteenth century, with a château twice devastated and rebuilt in the mid-seventeenth century, and a vast ensemble of fine dependencies including an armagnac chai and a seventeenth-century dovecote. Of the park it says that its trees are two hundred years old and of exotic species, and that traces of a layout going back to the seventeenth century survive. The 1999 listing covers the château, the park and the dependencies.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA40000029 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chateau%20de%20Fondat%204.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
The château by this garden
Discover the architecture and history of this place at Le Roi du Château.
To the château dossier →