Martainville Castle
Castle classified Historic Monument. XVIIIth century pink brick castle surrounded by moats and bordered by a French park. The present castle, built on a hunting rendezvous of Dagobert, was built between 1574 and 1661.
The park of the castle is a French park drawn at the end of the seventeenth century, with its straight alleys, its rooms of greenery, round carriage and perspectives beyond the jumps of the wolf.
The castle of Martainville, which currently houses the Departmental Museum of Traditions and Norman Arts, was built in 1485 for the benefit of Jacques Le Pelletier, lord of Martainville. Nice example of the architecture of the First Renaissance in Normandy, it kept its original layout and its annexed buildings: dovecote, charreterie, bread oven, half-timbered well.
Created in 1961 by the General Council of Seine-Maritime, the Museum of Traditions and Norman Arts has an exceptional collection of high-Norman furniture retracing the evolution of styles from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The ethnography of the regions of Upper Normandy is presented in the form of interiors of farms restored with furniture and objects of daily life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The top floor of the castle evokes the history of textile and costume in Normandy by presenting paintings, headdresses and regional jewelry of the nineteenth century and musical instruments made in Normandy. A rich agricultural collection exposed in the common completes the visit.
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