点评:Arrived here, with few expectations other than the guidebooks and tourist offices saying it was worth a detour. Not the easiest of places to find despite being able to see it from miles away, but well worth the effort. Parking at the foot of the hill - €4 - but allows you the chance to visit the village as well (and the church is worth it, as the choir stalls are quite special)
Obviously a climb up to the entrance, and we weren’t sure why there were notices about a Jean Mouliérat. We subsequently discovered that he was a very famous opera singer at the end of 19th century. (A Pavarotti of his time presumably money wise) He bought the ruined chateau and two houses in the village for 10,000 francs (somewhere in the region of € 65,000 in today’s money) and then spent what must have been a fortune restoring the chateau, as a second home, and collecting furnishings, tapestries, porcelains and other artefacts so that it now it is like a museum. Some fabulous pieces. There are also interesting audio visual descriptions about both him, and the chateau.
We would have liked to spend longer mooching, but it was closing for the afternoon.
The views are fabulous. Some bits are still rather in ruins, but the part that he and his wife inhabited has been carefully restored. The glass in some of the windows is quite exceptional.
翻译:来到这里时,除了旅游指南和旅游信息中心提到这里值得一游外,我并没有抱太大期望。虽然从数英里外就能看到它,但要找到这个地方却并非易事,不过这一切努力都是值得的。山脚下的停车费是4欧元,但这也让你有机会游览整个村庄(那里的教堂同样值得一看,因为其唱诗班席位相当特别)。显然需要爬一段路才能到达入口处,我们也不太明白为何会有关于让·穆列拉的告示牌。后来我们得知,他其实是19世纪末一位声名显赫的歌剧演唱家(从财富角度来看,堪称那个时代的帕瓦罗蒂吧)。他以1万法郎(相当于如今的6.5万欧元左右)的价格买下了那座破败的城堡以及村里的两栋房屋,随后又花费了巨额资金来修复城堡并将其改作第二居所。他还大量搜集各种家具、挂毯、瓷器及其他古董,如今这座城堡简直就像一座博物馆一般。里面有许多极为珍贵的藏品。还有关于他本人以及这座城堡的有趣的音视频介绍。
我们本想多逛一会儿,但下午时馆舍就要闭馆了。
这里的景色堪称绝美。虽然有些区域仍显破败,但他与妻子曾经居住的部分则被精心修复过。有些窗户上的玻璃也极为出色。