France · Still standing
Château of Vauvenargues
The Château of Vauvenargues is a fortified bastide on a rocky knoll north of Montagne Sainte-Victoire near Aix-en-Provence. The site has Roman and medieval origins and was remodelled into its present seventeenth-century manor form; it later became the home of Pablo Picasso in the 20th century and remains private property.
Its prime
1667
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1667
The shape it held in its prime.
A pale beige stone, three-storey rectangular manor built on a rocky knoll, with a low hipped tiled roof and regularly spaced tall rectangular windows (many fitted with shutters as seen today). The principal façade is approached by a balustraded terrace and broad stairs; to the right sit remnants of older curtain walls and towers set among dense trees. The building reads as a seventeenth-century gentilhommière set against the slopes of Mont Sainte-Victoire, surrounded by terraced lawns and stone boundary walls.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1667.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Château of Vauvenargues — including 4 interiors: large medieval keep room, downstairs library with seventeenth-century plasterwork, large west-facing studio room and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Château of Vauvenargues with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1667 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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