Château De Tanlay
The Château de Tanlay at Tanlay (Yonne) is a French château built in Burgundy (region), Burgundy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, famous for its beauty and the setting. The walls are of limestone under tall sloping slate roofs ''à la française'', surrounding three sides of a central court with cylindrical towers at its four corners. The château is entirely encircled by its rectilinear moat and approached on axis across a bridge marked by paired obelisks through a gatehouse (''illustration'') built in 1558, which straddles the low balustrade and projects forward into the moat. The perfect symmetry of the ''cour d'honneur'' is part of Tanlay's serene charm. The foundations are in part those of the thirteenth-century ''château-fort''. The rebuilding in Renaissance architecture, Renaissance style is owing to the brother of the Admiral de Coligny, François de Coligny d'Andelot (1521–1569), who inherited the site in ruinous condition in 1547 and whose construc ...
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Tanlay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. See also * Château de Tanlay * Communes of the Yonne department References

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