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The courtyard also features a sophisticated system of water channels, fountains, and basins. At the center of the southern hall, the northern hall, and the eastern and western porticoes is a small fountain at ground level with a round basin from which a water channel runs across the marble floor along the central axes of the courtyard.
The Courtyard is placed where the original cloister of the convent was located. It was constructed in 1566–67, and is surrounded by a gallery. The centrepiece of the courtyard is the Fountain of Venus, the only fountain in the Villa which retains its original appearance and decoration. The fountain, designed by Raffaelo Sangallo in 1568–69 ...
The façade facing west, the French Garden, is the richest: it is adorned with a forecourt of four isolated columns [62] in the Corinthian style surmounted by capitals. [63] [note 7] On the south courtyard side, the ground floor is embossed horizontally, [note 8] while the main floor and attic are punctuated with Corinthian pilasters. [64]
A private botanical and English garden in a small valley, around a pond. The flower gardens are organized on the theme of colors. Other features include, basins full of trout, Japanese primroses, and colorful bushes in bloom in the spring. Talcy – The Château de Talcy. Talcy is not a large château, but a Renaissance country house of the ...
Palace of Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɪ n b l oʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo; [1] French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
A private swimming pool, part of a six-bedroom “ultra-penthouse,” will stretch across two 591-foot-tall residential towers from 2027. $1-billion Dubai skyscrapers to be linked by daring ...
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Occupying the site of Rondeau/Bassin des Cygnes of Louis XIII, the Apollo Fountain, which was constructed between 1668 and 1671, depicts the sun god driving his chariot to light the sky. The fountain forms a focal point in the garden and serves as a transitional element between the gardens of the Petit Parc and the Grand Canal. [12]