Château de Candé

Cande Castle is a castle near the town Monts in the Indre- et- Loire in France. It is back on an area of ​​250 hectares on the N10 and on a country house goes, this was built in place of an old castle François Briçonnet, mayor of Tours ( 1499-1500 ) in Renaissance style in 1500. 1508 was completed by his daughter Jeanne Briçonnet. In 1853 the rich Cubans Santiago Drake del Castillo acquired the property and let it expand to three times its size. Styles were the Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance the.

The last private owner was the billionaire Charles Bedaux (1886-1944), who bought the castle in 1927 and it comprehensively modernized. These included central heating, hot water on all floors and a central telephone system. For physical education, you went to the newly established gymnastics studio or on the golf course. The design of the whole lay in the hands of Henri Lafargue, architect of Blois, of each living area added a private bathroom.

Thus equipped, the castle was ready for the big event that was on June 3, 1937 in the house. On this day, married at Castle Cande the Duke of Windsor, the American Wallis Simpson, for whom he had renounced the throne of England. The Duke was only ten months as Edward VIII King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and abdicated on 11 December 1936.

1951 entered remote Bedaux, the widow of the owner, the Cande lock from the Republic of France. The French government hastened to bring the furniture to Paris in the Mobilier National. At the same time, the castle was closed, and even hunting on the property has been set. Since a few years, the restored, since 1974 the Conseil Général d' Indre- et- Loire ( Touraine ) imputed structure with the returned original furnishings to the public again. Also, efforts are made castle Cande to establish itself as a cultural center and venue, for example, exhibitions and weddings.