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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Park without castle


The Park St. Cloud just to the West of Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt, can easily be reached by public transportation.  There one can walk for hours in a designed landscape under large trees and on straight walks designed by Le Notre already in the 18th Century. The castle which then was existing for the brother of Louis XIV, was destroyed 1871 and now its layout is just marked with pyramidical formed trees.  To our surprise there are plans to reconstruct the castle again!   http://www.reconstruisonssaintcloud.fr/english.html

Actually, the interesting topography and the 450 acres of parkland are gratifying enough. The view from the park's terrace shows plenty of buildings.  Dare we say, that there are already enough castles in France?