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keeping record of the harvest in Chateau Cayla

pretty awesome if you see it large and View On Black

 

Chosen as Pick of the week in ~Our Soul~Our Heart~Our Life~ Group in the week of November 26, 2011

 

Winner of April 2014 Photo Face-Off ~ Interior Spaces of Magic Troll Artistry Group

 

 

 

Bought by the Tarn department in 1937, the Cayla castle is a traditional manor-house of Languedoc. Part of it dates from the 15th century, with extensions and changes in the 18th and 19th centuries, in the middle of a park of 17 ha.

 

It is the native house of the prose poet Maurice de Guérin, more particularly author of the Centaure and of La Bacchante, and of his sister Eugénie, whose Journal witnesses the romantic way of life.

 

Landscape and literature are in the heart of the activities of this writer's house: permanent exhibition of the collections, poetic strolls outside, temporary literary and artistic exhibitions, contemporary fittings, seminar organized with the university (Maurice de Guérin and Romanticism in 1999), conferences, educational activities, various workshops...

 

A restoration project is currently under investigation: to set back the original setting of the sleeping-rooms and kitchen. The scientific management of exhibitions is under the control of the department (Brigitte Benneteu).

 

taken from:

www.litterature-lieux.com/en/fiche-site-2.htm

 

with the textures of Darkwood67 and

Lenabem Anna J

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