The Château d'Aubiry is a
château
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
Nowaday ...
located in
Céret (
Pyrénées-Orientales
Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ...
), built between 1893 and 1904. Designed by the Danish architect
Viggo Dorph-Petersen, the Château d'Aubiry was built for the son of French industrialist
Pierre Bardou-Job. It was used as a filming location in 1960 for the movie
L'eau a la bouche
''L’eau à la bouche'' is a 1960 French film directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and starring Françoise Brion, Bernadette Lafont and Alexandra Stewart.
Plot
Miléna (Brion) is living in her grandmother's château when the rich lady dies. He ...
, has been protected as an official French historical monument since 2006.
Location
Although located in Céret, the Château d'Aubiry is nearer to the city limits of
Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts
Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts (; oc, Sant Joan de Pladecorts) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Geography
Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Cà ...
than the town of Céret itself and can be seen from the road D 115, on the right side when coming from Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts and going towards Céret.
History
French industrialist
Pierre Bardou-Job became wealthy selling
rolling paper
Rolling paper is a specialty paper used for making cigarettes (commercially manufactured filter cigarettes and individually made roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs of several cigarette-size sheets, often folded inside a cardboard ...
and decided to have a château built for each of his three children, all designed by the Danish architect
Viggo Dorph-Petersen. The Château d'Aubiry was for his son Justin and was built from 1893 to 1904. Pierre Bardou-Job himself never saw it, as he died suddenly in 1892 just before the start of the construction.
The Château d'Aubiry was used as a filming location in 1960 for the movie
L'eau a la bouche
''L’eau à la bouche'' is a 1960 French film directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and starring Françoise Brion, Bernadette Lafont and Alexandra Stewart.
Plot
Miléna (Brion) is living in her grandmother's château when the rich lady dies. He ...
by French director
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (; 15 March 1920 Р6 October 1989) was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director. In 1951, Doniol-Valcroze was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine ''Cahiers du cin̩ma'', along with Andr̩ Bazin and Jo ...
. It has been protected as an official French historical monument since 2006,
and was offered for sale in 2011 with an asking price of 21 million Euros.
References
Castles in Pyrénées-Orientales
Monuments historiques of Pyrénées-Orientales
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