Pompadour: The Marquise's Château and the Anglo-Arab Stud
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Pompadour: The Marquise's Château and the Anglo-Arab Stud
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Louis XV pre-empted the château of Pompadour on 15 June 1745 and gave it nine days later to his favourite, who took the title marquise de Pompadour. She set up a private stud here in 1751; when she gave the château back in 1760 the king turned it into a royal stud the following year, and Pompadour became the cradle of the Anglo-Arab and today the second of France's national studs after Le Pin. Racing runs on Sundays through the summer on the course facing the château.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Take the guided tour of the Haras national de Pompadour, where Napoleon restocked the stud with Arab stallions brought back from Egypt and where the Anglo-Arab was fixed in the 1830s and 1840s, then walk the chestnut avenue down to the racecourse said to have been planted by the duc de Choiseul
2
of 4
Walk round the Château de Pompadour, begun in the 11th century by Guy de Lastours and much enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries, which Louis XV bought and handed to his favourite in June 1745 and which now houses the national stud
3
of 4
Go to a race meeting on the course in front of the château, held on Sundays in summer, or to one of the stud's equestrian championships, if in season
4
of 4
Go into the chapelle Saint-Blaise at Pompadour to see André Brasilier's mural, more than 300 square metres he spent nearly five years painting, and then the 11th-century church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Pardoux, listed since 1846
Take the guided tour of the Haras national de Pompadour, where Napoleon restocked the stud with Arab stallions brought back from Egypt and where the Anglo-Arab was fixed in the 1830s and 1840s, then walk the chestnut avenue down to the racecourse said to have been planted by the duc de Choiseul
Walk round the Château de Pompadour, begun in the 11th century by Guy de Lastours and much enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries, which Louis XV bought and handed to his favourite in June 1745 and which now houses the national stud
Go to a race meeting on the course in front of the château, held on Sundays in summer, or to one of the stud's equestrian championships, if in season
Go into the chapelle Saint-Blaise at Pompadour to see André Brasilier's mural, more than 300 square metres he spent nearly five years painting, and then the 11th-century church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Pardoux, listed since 1846
Before you go
Races are run on Sundays through the summer.
Race meetings at Pompadour are on Sundays through the summer season only, on the course facing the château, which also holds an international cross-country track. The château and stud are seen on a guided tour, so check the day's departure times before arriving.
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