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Chateau de la Barben

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Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Chateau de la Barben
Phone:
+33 4 90 55 25 41

Hours:
Sunday11am - 6pm
Monday11am - 6pm
Tuesday11am - 6pm
Wednesday11am - 6pm
Thursday11am - 6pm
Friday11am - 6pm
Saturday11am - 6pm


The Château of Vauvenargues is a fortified bastide in the village of Vauvenargues, situated to the north of Montagne Sainte-Victoire, just outside the town of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. Built on a site occupied since Roman times, it became a seat of the Counts of Provence in the Middle Ages, passing to the Archbishops of Aix in the thirteenth century. It acquired its present architectural form in the seventeenth century as the family home of the marquis de Vauvenargues. After the French revolution it was sold to the Isoard family, who despite their humble origins eventually installed their coat of arms in the chateau. Nineteenth century additions include a ceramic maiolica profile in the Italian renaissance style of René of Anjou, one of the former owners, and a small shrine containing the relics of St Severin. In 1929 the chateau was officially listed as a historic monument. In 1943 it was sold by the Isoard family to three industrialists from Marseille, who stripped it of its furnishings and mural decoration, some of which still survives in the Château of La Barben. In 1947 it became a vacation centre for a maritime welfare institution. It was acquired in September 1958 by the exiled Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, seeking a more isolated working place than his previous home, La Californie in Cannes. He occupied and remodeled the chateau from 1959 until 1962, after which he moved to Mougins. He and his wife Jacqueline are buried in the grounds of the chateau of Vauvenargues, which is still the private property of the Picasso family. Their tomb is a grassy mound surmounted by La Dame à l'offrande , a monumental sculpture that previously guarded the entrance of the Spanish pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937.
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