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CHÂTEAU MALET
Château Malet
At the “ Château Malet ”, among other crowned heads , stayed the King of the Belgians Leopold II , the ex Empress Eugenie , Maria Feodorovna Dowager Empress of Russia and Albert , King of Saxony .
In 1890 , Sir Edward Malet , former Ambassador of England in Berlin , bought a 6-hectare site and had his winter residence built there from sketches he himself made .
Sir Edward Malet took from his European experience models including the pilasters of the “ Zwinger Palace ” in Dresden , the windows of the “ Episcopal Palace ” in Würsburg and the “ Sans Souci Palace ” in Potsdam . He
added 40 statues from the “ Villa Canossa ” in Rome placed on the roof balustrade and in the niches of the facade .
The hall of the house , 12m high , could accommodate hundreds of people . The living room with Corinthian columns was in gypsum imitating lapis lazuli .
Today only the ballroom remains , around which everything has been rebuilt , and two caretaker ’ s pavilions which frame the entrance gate .
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