Slot Zuylen was built around 1520 on medieval remains. In 1752 the Slot was rebuilt into a stately country home on the Vecht. The Zuylen collection offers an overview of three centuries of residence by the Van Tuyll van Serooskerken family: porcelain, glasswork, paintings, furniture and wall tapestries. A number of rooms have been furnished as they were in the time when the well-known writer Belle van Zuylen was living in the Slot.

The moats and the drawbridge which enables to cross them both testify to what the fortified house was like in the Middle Ages : an austere and self-defending house.
From 1755, Pierre-Antoine PASCALIS de LONGPRA, member of the Parliament of Grenoble, had his house razed to the ground and rebuilt in the taste of the XVIII th century. Using the abilities of the bricklayers and carpenters of the village, as well as the talents of the Grenoble cabinetsmakers, among which HACHE, he realized a sumptuous aristocratic residence that the genius ofthe italian painters and decorators coloured. This art is still intact today.

Built in the middle of the XVIIIth century by the Marquis of Chalvet, Seneshal of Toulouse, the castle of Merville is beautiful and sober masonry very representative of the architecture of the area of Toulouse. The boxwood garden, which constitutes the principal curiosity of Merville, is a unique example in Europe. It includes six kilometers of hedges of high boxwood bordering the decorated alleys of roundabouts, of rooms of greenery and a labyrinth, thus bringing a secret and ludic key to the walk.

Situated between Lignieres and Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignieres, surrounded by a moat, the building offers a sample of architectural styles in touches: Gothic elegance, classic rigor, pastoral charm of the XVIIIth
Each year, the Castle of the Plaix is the background for of temporary exhibits.

This the pale, baronial castle, hidden amid the dark green trees, appears almost as a vision from a fairy-tale. Seat of the Duke of Argyll, chief of the clan Campbell, the original castle was rebuilt, together with the town of Inveraray in the mid-eighteenth century.
Visitors can see the State Dining Room, the Tapestry Room, costume displays, kitchen, gift shop and tearooms, plus a grand collection of 18th century French furniture and porcelain. The Armoury Hall contains over 1,300 pieces: pikes, cutlasses, claymores, shields, ancient guns, everything a warrior could wish for.

The Reggia of Caserta includes the Royal Palace and a beautiful park. It presents a unique and powerful piece of architecture, covering a vast area. It consists of a squareshape building (its dimensions are about 250 by 250 meters) divided internally into four sections with two wings each. Each one of them is shaped orthogonally, thus surrounding four courtyards.
At the posterior façade of the palace, the scenic and impressive park begins. It continues for three kilometers, until it reaches a chain of hills. The park also includes a very fine english garden, an area rich in plant life.inquadrate

Leopold I ordered a new building to the architect Fischer von Erlach. The architect drew plans for a magnificent building according to the instructions from the emperor during the period 1692-1693, with ambitions to compete with Versailles in beauty. The construction started in 1694.
The fasade get a yellow colour and pilasters according to the Roman Ionic architectural order. Three domes crowned the central part of the facade.
During the reign of Maria Theresia (1740-80) Schönbrunn was completed in a rococo architecture by Nicolaus Pacassi. The three domes over the central portion of the facade were removed. The building was finished in 1775. The palace has 1441 rooms and halls.

Let us guide you through 18th/19th century court life. Since the 17th century Wallerstein was the centre of administration for the principality Oettingen-Wallerstein. Now the castle increasingly is becoming a forum for art and culture.