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Chateau de Balleroy Review
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Château de Balleroy 
- Address: Balleroy, 14490
- Phone: 02-31-21-60-61
- www.chateau-balleroy.com
- Category: Castles/Palaces
- Location: Balleroy
Fodor's Review:
Sixteen kilometers (10 mi) southwest of Bayeux stands the Château de Balleroy. A connoisseur's favorite, it was built by architect François Mansart in 1626-36 and is a remarkably elegant 17th-century edifice. The cour d'honneur is marked by two stylish side pavilions -- an architectural grace note adapted from Italian Renaissance models -- which beautifully frame the small, but very seignorial, central mass of the house. Inside, the salon d'honneur is the very picture of Louis XIV decoration, while other rooms were recast in chic 19th-century style by Malcolm Forbes, who bought the château in 1970. A gallery houses the fascinating Musée des Ballons (Balloon Museum). The companion village to the cha[xc]teau was designed by Mansart in one of the first examples of town planning in France.
- Cost: EUR 7
- Open: Mid-Mar.-mid-Oct., Wed.-Mon. 10-6; mid-Oct.-mid-Mar., 10-noon and 2-5
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