Vienne

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Purnon

Symmetry, harmony and an avenue 3 kilometers long, longer than the Grand Canal at Versailles: Purnon is the work of Antoine-Charles Achard de la Haye, who finished it on the eve of the Revolution, in Haut-Poitou, western France. Laid out in an H between dry moats and an English-style park, the…