Château de Chaville

Chaville Castle

Chaville

Access

No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found

Where: Chaville

To make a day of it

Open within 20 km

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Château de Chaville stands in Chaville (Hauts-de-Seine), in the Île-de-France region of France. No visits are on record for this building.

The château de Chaville no longer exists: nothing remains on site of this former estate located between Paris and Versailles. Its history is chiefly remembered for the mid-17th century rebuilding carried out by Michel Le Tellier, Chancellor of France, who commissioned architect Charles Chamois and gardener André Le Nôtre to create a modest set of buildings surrounded by lavish gardens, which Le Tellier himself called his "délices". Louis XIV's son coveted the estate and acquired it in 1695. The only surviving traces today are period engravings, archival plans and a detailed post-mortem inventory, which allow us to picture what this vanished château once looked like.

Written from Château de Chaville

What to know

The château was demolished and no building remains to visit on its former site.
Visiting the site today means engaging with its history through surviving engravings and archival plans rather than physical remains.
The estate was located in Chaville, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, on the former road linking Paris to Versailles.
No opening hours, admission fees or physical access apply, since there is no standing monument to see.