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Events | Prices/Opening Times/How to get to Thoiry | Infos | Booking | Contact
THE WORLD'S FIRST AND ONLY INTERACTIVE MAZE !!!
"THE DREAM OF POLYPHILUS"
In a secret garden, between the high yew hedges of a 10900 foot long dedale of meanders and detours, a life-size landscape scale computer game in 4 dimensions. Will you be able to pierce its mysteries?
April to October 2005
Thoiry Castle Cricket Club Matchs -
To download the tournament dates, click here (Excel, 29Ko) SATURDAYS TO NOVEMBER 12:
THOIRY CASTLE'S PRIVATE "PRIVILEGE" TOURS.
Tea and Discovery of 3 themed private collections:
"Table Decoration and Customs",
"Bathing and Perfume",
and "Silk, Cotton, and Flounces".
Private viewings guided by Thoiry's new Cultural Attaché, Jerome Tarbouriech
15 guests maximum,
By reservation only: Fax : 01 3487 5412, e-mail: chateau@thoiry.tm.fr
Thoiry Castle in the Yvelines near Paris invites you to discover the Castle et its history as a privileged guest.
Take the time to sit down, to chat, to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and nibble on the Viscountess' home made cakes and cookies while discussing great events of the past and the private anecdotes that bring History to life.
Three themes are offered, alternatively, following the dates:
"Les Arts de la Table"
 with a presentation of earthenware of "terres mélées" created by Luc Jacquel and Benoït Gils of the
Ateliers du Vieil Apt and 18th century porcelains from the collections of Thoiry and other amateurs.
"Le Parfum et la Toilette"
The perfumes of times past will intoxicate you,
During the Renaissance, they could even kill.
Opening Thoiry's wardrobes,
you will discover forgotten perfume fountains, precious pots-pourris,
and delicat ensembles for dressing tables of other times ....
 You'll succomb to the "fall" of rustling taffetas ,
the heavy suppleness of gold threaded brocades.
These Private Viewings, conceived in partenariat with renown manufacturers of luxury fabrics, perfume and table decoration,
will also enable you to discover private collections,
loaned just for these events,
in rooms of the Château rarely open to visitors..
From the Château's attics to the La Panouse Family archives,
you will follow, at the rhythm of his discoveries,
Thoiry's new Attaché Culturel du Château, Jerome Tarbouriech,
who communicates with enthousiam and knowledge his passion
for the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary object..
Offered in parallel, and complementary to the traditionally guided Castle tours,
these "Privilège" private viewings open the doors to the lifestyles of other times in one of the Paris area's most prestigious castles, continuously inhabited by the same family, the Counts of La Panouse.
Private tours every Saturday until November12th (by reservation only)
"Privilège" tours per person : 14 Euros
(Places limited)
Informations et Reservations : Tel : 01 3487 4926 - Fax: 01 3487 5412
email: chateau@thoiry.tm.fr
Reservations with checks should be addressed and mailed to :
Château de Thoiry M.H.
78770 Thoiry, France
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH , 2005 :
NATIONAL HISTORIC HOUSES DAY
Party Table Settings and Bouquets. Flower Fantasies by Pascal Jegou of the "Agapanthe". SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19th, 9 P.M.and SUNDAY, 20th, 3 P.M. "LES SURPRISES DE L'AMOUR" (Love's Surprises). Concert-Theater in costume. Réservations: Les Festes de Thalie : Tel : 01 3487 4837.
 DECEMBER 21ST AT 3P.M. :
THOIRY CASTLE'S WINTER SOLSTICE PHENOMENON
From December 13, Saint Lucie's Day to Epiphany, every year, near Paris, at Thoiry Château, an extraordinary esoteric Renaissance monument , the Sun sets in the castle's central arch, the Grand Vestibule and the axis of the southwest parterre of the formal gardens. (as viewed from the northeast facade).
December 21st, the exact day of the Solstice, is the optimum moment to see and photograph this remarkable phenomenon, designed using the Golden Mean , by the great "initiated" architect Philibert de L'Orme en 1561.
Thoiry, constructed to be a transparent bridge of light, a solar calendar on landscape scale, is the incarnation of Occidental equivalent of "Feng Shui" , the ancient secrets of an initiated elite dedicated to the capture of the cosmic and telluric forces to create a harmonious ambiance propitious to well-being, happiness and success.
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