Online luxury real estate portal Mansion Global reports that the Chateau Armanvilliers palace, located 50 kilometers from Paris, is up for sale for 425 million euros.
This price tag makes the palace one of the most expensive properties on the market at the moment.
The palace was built by Baron Edmond de Rothschild on the site of a 12th-century castle he bought in 1877. The castle was partially destroyed during the French Revolution and restored during the Second Empire.
Between 1881 and 1938, the palace was expanded and modified several times under the leadership of architects Felix Langlais and Emil Ullmann. After the Baron’s death, the palace passed to his second son Maurice, and then to Maurice’s son Edmond (1926-1997). In the 1980s, the Rothschilds sold the palace to King Hassan II of Morocco. The current King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, sold it in 2008 for 200 million euros to an undisclosed buyer from the Middle East.
The palace has about 100 rooms, and the area of land associated with it is about 10 square kilometers, including the lake. In addition to residential and office premises, the palace has doctors’ offices, dental offices, a hairdresser’s salon, a sauna, and stables for 50 horses.