Castle Abbadia, Hendaye, Basque Coast, France 2 by Kordouane

Photography • Historical • posted on Feb 18, 2018

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Dominating the ocean, the castle is built in the field of Abbadia according to the plans of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Edmond Duthoit in a neo-Gothic style between 1864 and 1879, designed at the request of Antoine d' Abbadie d' Arrast, astronomer and explorer and also anthropologist and linguist, member of the Academy of Science, which dreams about a castle about monitoring center of neo-Gothic style where get involved its passions orientalistes, African and Christian. The Orientalist influence of the journeys of In. Abbadie in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and in Egypt finds itself very widely in all the interior design. In 1857, Antoine d' Abbadie orders the architect Clément Parent, the plan "in the style with diagonal ribs". The project of C. Parent (1859) evokes too much the French Renaissance. Antoine d' Abbadie turns