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and the ceilings are sculptured. The two first floor rooms each have a monumental Gothic fireplace of gray marble and oak. The second floor was used as a bedroom of the imperial couple and has a small chapel with two beautiful stained glass windows. The upper floors were for the servants of higher
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According to an 1882 travel guide, the chateau had been "restored in sumptuous style" but was not finished. The imperial family never dwelt in the chateau. When
Eugenia was dethroned and wanted to settle in Spain, she was hosted by Alba in Madrid and Seville, and did not use the castle. A visitor in
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The original manor house was said to have been built in the eighth century by FortĂşn OrtĂşnez and Sancho GaĂşteguiz, and was destroyed and rebuilt many times. The castle was built on the foundations of a tower mentioned in writings from the mid-fifteenth century. By the nineteenth century it was very
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with figures of animals, double windows and battlements. The floor of the central tower is a rectangle of 17 by 12 metres (56 by 39 ft), which is attached at an angle to an octagonal tower inside which is the staircase that connects the different floors. The castle is faced with gray marble,
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took over responsibility. The concept was a medieval castle surrounded by four walls with round towers. Ancelet undertook reconstruction of the castle in 1859. The project involved building kitchens on the ground floor, a salon and dining room on the first floor, an antechamber and apartments for
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The decision to build the new castle, or chateau, was in response to a decree in 1856 by the assembly of Basque country that the Prince
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The tower is surrounded by a small square enclosure, surrounded by high walls and four cylindrical corner towers. The stone used in them is more modest and rough. Access to the site is by a single door in Gothic style.
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with red jasper around the arched windows. On each of its four sides, two ogival arches rise from the base to the highest level, each containing four windows, two on each level. The castle has a superb
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run down, having been used as a farmhouse. The tower was owned by the
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