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LE CHATEAU DE MONTE CRISTO

Port-Marly 78

​The castle of Monte Cristo is the residence that the writer Alexandre Dumas had built in 1846 by the architect Hyppolyte Durand in Port-Marly in Yvelines. In an English-style park with water features, caves and rockeries, the main building called Château de Monte Cristo in Renaissance style is accompanied, higher up in the park, by a study in a neo-Gothic style called Château d 'Yep. The restoration concerned the site, the facades and roofs, exterior joinery and stained glass windows of the two castles.

Inside, the Moorish salon for the creation of which Alexandre Dumas had brought in Tunisian craftsmen he met during his travels.

Also included in the operation, the gate and entrance pavilions, factories, waterfalls and fountains. Restoration and sanitation of the hydraulic network.

​Project Owner:
Ville de Port-Marly
​Project management:
GMDP Architecture
​Project Management Mission:
​Complete mission including diagnostics
Surface :
​3 ha park
Amount of work:
700 000 € HT
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