Where did our chateau go? French village loses its landmark
Where did our chateau go? French village loses its landmark
Dec 5, 2012 6
(Guardian) - The mayor of a small wine-making village near Bordeaux has taken legal action after a picturesque 18th-century chateau mysteriously disappeared.
Residents of Yvrac were baffled to find that the vast Bellevue chateau, with ornate stone balustrades and 13,000 square metres of rooms surrounded by vineyards had been reduced to a mound of mud last month, apparently bulldozed while a construction firm were supposed to be restoring it to past glory.
Dmitry Stroskin, a Russian businessman, had bought Bellevue and secured a planning permit to destroy one small outhouse while repairing the historic main chateau which was in a bad state.
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