Les secrets du château de Chantilly

The Château de Chantilly is the symbol of French excellence in architecture. Located 50 km north of Paris, the building sits from a millennium at the top of the most beautiful constructions in France. Hitters of heritage, it attracts more than 500,000 curious people every year!

The castle is one of the most splendid in our country, and unfolds over 10,000 m2. Surrounded by an equally gigantic park: 215 hectares, one of the most beautiful creations of the landscape architect of genius André Le Nôtre. The Grand Parterre de Chantilly, in surface, is the equivalent of six football fields. An area with twelve kilometers of perspective! Even the biggest perspective today. One of Chantilly's wonders are also the stables: 20 years of effort will be necessary to build the greatest princely stables in Europe!

From pilot foundations to the symmetries of French gardens, including the creation of a titanic dome, how did the builders make the impossible? What revolutionary techniques did ours used to allow Chantilly to overtake Versailles? What are the technical and architectural prowess that hide in this extraordinary area? How did Chantilly, several times demolished, crossed the centuries?

00:00 🏰 The Château de Chantilly is a monumental castle with a rich history of construction and destruction.
12: 38🏰 Manufacturers build a small castle on the water using the same method as Venice, and they get their supplies into a new type of stone from underground quarries.
25:55 💦 André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect, had to face difficulties in the implementation of his projects in Chantilly because of his rivalry with Versailles.
38:48 🏰 The construction of large stables required the extraction of 50,000 blocks of stone and the use of innovative techniques such as chimneys and pulleys.

Director: François Tribolet