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Palace of Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɪ n b l oʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
Used by the kings of France from the 12th century, the medieval royal hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, standing at the heart of a vast forest in the Ile-de-France, was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the 16th century by François I, who wanted to make a 'New Rome' of it.
Having become the Imperial palace after the Revolution, Fontainebleau bears the mark of the renovations by Napoleon I and is home to the only Napoleonic Throne room still in existence.
More than just a hunting castle in the heart of the game-filled ‘Beer Forest’, this first Fontainebleau was, from the outset, honoured with the title of ‘palace’. It hosted the stays of Capetian kings who were building and strengthening, from reign to reign, the authority of the ‘Lys de France’.
The cradle of the French Renaissance. Both near and far from Paris, Fontainebleau had everything to please Francis I. He was a humiliated king, returning from a trying period of imprisonment in Madrid (1525-1526), who set his sights on this prestigious medieval ruin and undertook its reconstruction. In 10 years, the project to redevelop a ...
Palace of Fontainebleau ( / ˈfɒntɪnbloʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /- bluː / - bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ ʃɑto d (ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo] ), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
The Palace and Park of Fontainebleau has been influential for its architecture and interior decor made by Italian artists.
