Touring the MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE in the World
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and the gardens then the Greek Theater and the greenhouse we're actually staying overnight here at the Chateau but more on that later now before we immerse ourselves into this world of unfathomable wealth and to reveal the price tag of this listing we need to understand the history chat deai or the battlefield Castle was built in 1652 by Royal architect Lou Lavo who takes his place in the history books for Designing the Palace of Versailles where the Royal French family lived a mere 20 years after this this Chateau is actually the Prototype inspiration for Versailles famous French Gardener Andre lenot who created the Gardens of Versailles also designed the gardens here at this Chateau so this is a piece of living history now during the French Revolution the chatau was stormed and the furniture was sold throughout France the home then passed through various owners over the years even serving as a field Hospital during World War II then in 1992 the current owner jacqu Garcia world famous French architect and designer purchased the rundown chatau and has since dedicated the last 30 years of his life restoring this Palace to its former glory and more importantly filling the chatau with Priceless art belonging directly to the French royal family everything in here is authentic for example these four vases here were gifted to Napoleon by the king of Sweden and they're here in this house this is an actual human body mummified from Egypt in this house in France that is wild it's rumored that Garcia purchases a piece of new art every day now the actual price value of this home it's nearly impossible to put a number on but recently an undisclosed private offer in the multiple 10 figure range was made to purchase the home and it was declined by Jack rather it's his dream that the doors of the Chateau be open to the world ensuring that future Generations can experience the magic and the Mystery of this Royal French treasure and I'm working with Barnes International to Market this home for rent so so if you're looking to rent out this chatau please contact me via email in the description of this video and with that we're starting our tour here in the formal Gardens which are absolutely colossal so we're now at the center of the property what's the significance about this behind me so the exact place where we are now it's the perfect middle of the castle that mean there is 50 uh 500 M uh on that part and 500 also on this one so back in 199 to all of what we're looking at right now was just an overgrown field lost to time until jacqu found the original garden design plans in the Chateau he then excavated and recreated these Gardens exactly how they would have been almost 400 years ago first he dug a 550 M long Canal which is definitely a defining feature of the property to feed the vast network of elaborate fountains and water features such as this circular entrance fountain with these gilded statues of dolphins emerging from the sea surrounding an ornate Globe rising in the center even where we're standing right now at the center of the property you've got these wild claw foot soaking tubs overflowing with water and the cost to turn on these fountains is apparently 202,000 just to turn on and run the fountains here you could have a jet ski in here that's how large this is it takes a full-time staff of 15 of the best gardeners in all of Europe to maintain and create the Liber garden designs consisting of stunning geometrical patterns and even humans sized hedge mes throughout the property on the side of the castle we have a lawn with chest pieces that are probably 8 9t tall here and look how perfect these are I'm in shock that they can actually do this the role of the gardener here at the Chateau is I'd say the most important role because of how much acreage we have and one of the most intricate and prominent design features in the gardens are this symmetrical lattice design Box Gardens leading up to the front patio of the Chateau now the garden is based on the principle of imposing order and symmetry over the land and back in the 17th century the number one way a king could show his flex and his power over the land was symmetry control nature so if you notice all the hedges are squares because you don't find a square like that in nature and I think that is just fascinating that they had the ability to do that way back then and that it's been preserved today with this it's kind of mindboggling I also noticed the hedges are cut in the shape of a wave which are at least 30 ft High I think the biggest thing I want to drive home is the scale of this place and how you really need a person walking through the gardens to show the whole 45 Acres like this is I've never seen a house like this ever I don't think anyone has cuz typically stuff like this is off Market especially in France and the Paris Market it's very very private and in the past 3 years Zachary was saying that they're becoming a bit more public facing using things like social media to sell so here we are damn there's also a theater here yeah so it's uh inspired by a greek temple because during the 17th century uh in Europe uh the archaeologist they just discovered uh all the uh Greek uh Temple and everything so that uh they were trying to produce it in all the the biggest home like this castle for example wow so back in the day when they discovered the Greek Theater the wealthiest of the wealthiest wanted to say hey I want to have a Greek Theater at my home yeah because for them it was amazing this uh uh Discover it was completely new they didn't knew this was existing because it was uh like almost uh 1,000 year before them and this is the living stage in the Greek Theater so essentially they made this Garden a replica of the original Greek Theater because back in the 17th century it was so expensive to travel the world where those who were at the upper echelons of wealth would bring the world to their property so that's what you're seeing here and it's pretty spectacular for instance even behind us we have Ivy which has been cut to mimic the architecture of the ancient Greek Theater that's ridiculous I mentioned that there's 15 gardeners that made maintain this land they planted flowers that start blooming in May and end in October so the entire year you have bloomed flowers and that's where that price tag of billion dollars comes from because you really can't put a price on this because it's it's history and its [Music] art there is an Indian what Indian temple Indian Indian Palace p in French there's an Indian pallet on the property [Music] essentially jacqu brought in I believe it was what five containers 600 6 600 containers of actual materials from India to build this Palace and in uh 1992 in 1992 uh apparently he has parties where he brings an elephants yeah lions tigers and bears and the only way to go from here to the indan pet is this boats I mean you could walk around but we're going to take the boat so this is the Indian P yeah the Indian p and all of what you see here is really from inja it's not a replica uh Jack Garcia the owner he brought all of this uh by shipping containers I'm at a loss for words for how large the scale of his thinking is the fact that like it looks like we walked into India it looks like we are in India right now so there's a house in the Indian Palace right jack when he come here he's living uh there so welcome to the living room of the Indian pet and just take a look around it's one thing to hear 500 shipping containers but to see all of the artifacts that come look at this look at this leopard look at this thing I don't really have wordss for this also because we don't know the value of everything I want to mention that in the price point of this Chateau I believe we were told there's Million worth of our alone in the Chateau and you can see just from around me we have look at like look at this chair just I don't want to touch anything either hookah lounge oh my gosh what you know that's real too there's no way that's fake what's the most impressive is a lot of times I see homes where people have a theme and it's replications or knockoffs but the fact that this is all legitimate historical antiques is just man it's beyond my pay grid I don't even know what to say about this just look at all these artifacts have you already seen a propos like this before uh not as historically but definitely where there's themed rooms but nothing like this yeah it's the most expensive home in the world but I think this is priceless it's hard to put a value on everything we've seen so check out this hallway apparently now we're going to the indoor swimming pool in the Indian P oh W look at this holy crap just a I'm going to go up here this is a library built into this hallway Blake actually you want to check this out up here these books are so old I'm not going to touch a single thing this is also the kind of home where you could spend at least a week here minimum and still not explore everything like what is that iron door where's that go I smell chlorine so I guess we're getting close yes you gu see down oh my gosh look at this IND what the should I apparently you can walk around and check out the back of the pool like if you wanted to come here and dive in there's a hallway way that goes around the entire pool we're now checking out some of the bedrooms apparently there's 10 bedrooms in the Indian Palace just look at this the what the hell Zachary went back this way we're going to find him now like look at the tapestries here another little Library sitting area more tapestries in a never ending hallway at the end of the hall this is one of the bedrooms one of 10 Again everything imported in from India it's all historic and look at this bathroom divided by this solid Stone soaking tub here in the middle I am I having a hard time fathoming how someone over the course of 30 years brought all this here and planned all this out also like I'm afraid to bump into anything by accident just because like we mentioned the the price but it could be more than that just because all the art hasn't really been valuated and now we're going to go check out well wait till you see this so I was told that this is the swimming pool the swimming pool is 100 m long so that is two Olympic length swimming pools and the cost to turn on these fountains is apparently 20,000 just to turn on and run the fountains here I'm truly speechless you could have a jet ski in here that's how large this is and we haven't even seen the main Chateau yet this is just one Palace on the land right across from the Indian pet is The Grotto now in 2020 during the pandemic the owner got bored and while all of us were in our homes quarantining watching the news he built a grotto with a waterfall cascading down volcanic lava rock which leads down into our guide actually took us down here last night check this out at night time all right we've been kidnapped this is Ghost Hunters guys we're going into the gr we're staying overnight in the castle we're we're ready flashlights off lights here now it's turning into a YouTu T the hell keep it wrong I mean look at the rock this crazy so when do we get sacrificed during Co he was like bored and he didn't know what to do and so that ID came up he made he made a gr making this place yeah you did that too during Co right oh yeah in the daytime it's a bit different so you head on down into this I I don't even know what you would call this to this Temple likee Grotto I mean the ceilings in here are at least 50 ft it has a dead center circle in the middle middle and all around me are the statues of Greek gods with mirrors behind them all petrified wood here lining the columns supporting the structure with again that volcanic Stone built in around the statues here the outside of the structure is meant to mimic a volcano and then you have waterfalls entering through all the sides here flowing down the stairs leading into the center Basin here where you have the circular stage and even if you look up look at all the carvings of the faces along on the ceiling I was told that the owner has some pretty crazy parties in here comment down below what you think they use this room for so this is the final structure on the 45 Acres of gardens that we've toured so far we haven't even seen the castle we're about to enter what they call the [Music] greenhouse [Music] I haven't seen it yet so we're going to get my reactions apparently this is this is the spot so here we go ready Che oh my God so this is the room off of the entrance where we have all these blue vases and just more art more art from all around the world here again worth over million and now the the main event when they said it was a greenhouse I didn't think it would be this there's a floating Bridge with waterfalls on either side with tropical plants everywhere what the this is insane this is crazy the trees are growing out of the the the ston workor there's sculptures everywhere there's trees growing out of the floor with holes cut in the carpet here with this statue of I don't even know what but holy crap this is just ridiculous and apparently I was told that the piano right behind me here this is steinway's piano so you know Steinway and Suns this is not the Suns this is his original piano [Music] wow this is crazy so this is this is actually how much does this cost and I was told that these ferns here these ferns are apparently 400 years old which is as old as the castle itself this is incredible let's say hi to everyone so this is the whole team it's not just me walking around here we're getting all the information this is the team at Barnes my girlfriend Geraldine this is Zachary at Barnes there's another room here a whole another room yeah because it's not crazy enough I've never seen a garden like this so in the winter time when it's a little depressing and cold you can come into this Garden here and just be transported into the tropics I Can't Describe to enough the intricacy of all the thought that went into the specific plants here the design of the water the lily pads it's really something else and it's hard to put a price on this and at the very end here there's a platform oh well look at this with an aerial view top down of the garden this is [Music] unreal [Music] we're actually spending the night at the Castle I wouldn't say it's scary it'sing terrifying it's a little scary our room didn't have a light and they actually bought up a floor lamp just because it was so dark in here all right it's now the next morning not the best sleep in my life but not the worst I'm looking for some coffee day two at the chatau dressed back up had my coffee staying overnight here it's really giving us the experience of what it would be like to actually own this and even with the weather changes we've got a bit more Moody feel today overcast but I'm excited let's get into it and start the tour off we've seen The Indian Palace we've seen the greenhouse all 45 Acres of the garden are you ready to see inside the Chateau let's check this out so right in the entry we have the Royal foer here with all the stone on the ground The Columns the home was built in 1651 and took 10 years to complete it has 40 bedrooms five living rooms two dining rooms the square footage they don't even know and we're only actually touring 1/4 of this Castle this side over here is private the owner lives on this side so we're touring I guess you could call it the public side but it's still pretty crazy let's start heading up the stairs off of the foed look at this stairwell like triple width stairwell here look at the stonework the raw iron railings statement stairwell if I have ever seen one so onto the second floor here we're going to head off to my right I mean and I want to also point out the artifacts I'm not going to actually touch this cuz it took 30 years to collect all the art in here and again I want to mention the art is worth north of million off of the stairwell welcome to the formal dining room Reception Area this is where the king would greet his guests it's also where they would Feast you notice all the silverware I want to point out again everything in here is authentic for example these four vases here were gifted to Napoleon by the king of Sweden and they're here in this house as we go out throughout the home we'll point out a few more artifacts but this is the entertaining room for when your guests arrive to the Chateau you've got views there to the South the north of the courtyard Juliet balconies the ceilings are about 30 ft high or 10 m and you can just see the scale of this room it is massive now from the dining room we've got your parlor or your great room here and this is decorated in typical 17th century French Decor again everything you see in here is authentic for example this is a portrait of Marie Antoinette young and then on the other side of Maria Antoinette old this over here is actually the wheelchair of Marie Antoinette's son his actual wheelchair he had a disability and this is what he used to get around and that's actually a painting of him right above here I want to also point out that the typical French living room in the 17th century was decorated like this where it's the opposite of minimalism every piece of the wall is covered in art the furniture from the formal living room we've got the pool hall and this is an original pool table from Louis the 14th his doctor actually prescribed described that after he ate to play pool to help with his uh indigestion and this is his original table here just chilling in the chatau then at the end here again this typically is closed off because this is actually where the owner of the Chateau is living full-time so unfortunately we can't T that if we look behind me you can really see the entire length of this chatau here and again let's walk and talk they actually don't even know the square meters or the square feet of this Castle so formal living room back into your dining room and again we don't know the actual square footage of the Chateau I would guess anywhere from 60 to 880,000 square ft off of the formal dining room we're back to the main stairwell area and this is the Ballroom in the Chateau if you look up all the artwork on the ceiling you have beautiful crown molding this is all gold leaf every single detail in here again over 30 years it took to design everything out to be as if you were in 17th century France here I really want to point out the level of detail on the gold leafing here it's on the walls the ceilings and even if you look up you have this artwork on the ceiling here with the angels the chandeliers these are all crystal chandeliers here these Bronze Statues again we don't know the individual value of certain pieces but the total sum is a dollar out of the ballroom here we're now entering the home office the study original desk here all original chairs again look at the ceiling here you've got beautiful artwork on the ceiling the gold leafing throughout and again the entire wall space is covered with original art from the French Revolution every room in the chatau also has a wood burning fireplace because back in the day it's the only way you're going to heat this place so from the office we have a little hallway which connects us to the king's Chambers so this is where the king of the Chateau slept right here for instance as far as the artifacts these two boxes on either side are from Imperial Japan that's original silver there with the artwork on those boxes here over top crystal chandelier fireplace again just look at the gold leafing detail here on every single wall super impressive leaving the king's bedroom back on through his private hallway into the study room right off of here this is pretty wild welcome to your double height ceiling the library here in the chatau take a look at this there's over 20,000 rare books in here you got a catwalk surrounding the library on the second floor open to the floor down below 20,000 historical books in here and at either end of the library there's two mummies this is an actual human body mummified from Egypt in this house in France that is wild I even saw voodoo dolls at that end and these look like spell books so it's there's no words for this that's why it's truly like you you can't put a price on this and with that said we don't actually know the true value of this estate we can only guess there's also hidden doors throughout the entire Home and these are only the ones that we've been showing I'm sure there's a lot more check out what's behind here this is the game room where we have an ostrich skeleton Turtles on the walls a panther we haven't even gone up here yet and I'm curious let's check out what's up here the whole wall is lined with tortoise shelves we're now going up into one of the towers of the Chateau and now we're just oh there's no lights in there I'm not going in there come on let's check it out got some feins what the heck this is actually crazy could you imagine look at this could you imagine if this was your bedroom and to get to your bedroom you had to walk through the game room through the secret passageway in the library again there's 40 bedrooms in this house this is one of 40 you saw the King's Room check out the bathroom a tub fit for royalty with a view of the garden here all right let's head of this bathroom and it's tough cuz we can't really show you every single bedroom like this is the the blueprint of the castle here on the wall you can just see how large it is I honestly think it's probably more than 60 to 80,000 ft I'm thinking closer to 100,000 because there's rooms that I'm sure we will not even see or have access to so up this stairwell there's another Wing where there's more bedrooms but we're going to head back down past all these dead beetles and turtle shells I want to point out also like I was kind of uh it's kind of jarring to see all this it's a bit Antiquated having dead animals on your wall like this but I guess back in the day in the 17th century this was the norm all right finally back downstairs there's just so much here oh we're locked yeah we're locked we have to go back the other way all right we made our way back down we're now at the lower level of the library so if you look up you can see the wraparound balcony and just the height of the ceiling in here and again these are all books from the mainly 18th and 19th century lots of again of French Revolution pieces now out of the library there's a back hallway which connects the front hallway here which we're going to go to right now where we left off upstairs and we were locked up there in the uh the dead zoo I guess you could call this not going to show too much of this but maybe just a little quick shot down this hallway to get the perspective of the Dead Zoo pretty gnarly and this is uh for perspective for perspective we were a there and this was locked so if we continue on there's a little room here I'm not even sure what this is for but this is the chapel in the chatau this is a proper church that just happens to be in the chatau again you got the double height ceilings here got the altar all these religious relics in here and I'm not going to begin to even try to explain any of this just because I really don't even know and I feel like most people here don't know because there's just so much there's so many artifacts from all over the world and just I don't really have much to say about this part it's really intense the dead zoo animals from all over the world mounted in this hallway comment down below what you think of this it's pretty intense but now we're back to the main 4A right there and what's down this door is actually pretty crazy so we're now going subterrain in the Chateau and as you come down here instantly it's like 5 to 10° cooler than upstairs and this is where the kitchen is in the Chateau because back in the day kitchens weren't something that you would show off the kitchen was below the home where you would store the firewood got the pans here they even have those subterrain windows you can let in light and if you peek in here this is traditionally what it would be like and where the staff would be living because it is the warmest part of the house so the beds are in the kitchen here and I was told that the biggest cause of fire in these chatus was here in the kitchen so that's why someone would be sleeping here at all times in case things went crazy but this is set up in the way would be in 1650 and then if we continue on the ceiling gets a little lower there's another area over here where you would be butchering your meat you have all the quail hanging a boar for dinner going even further back getting even colder this is the wine storage here an actual wine seller and at the very end this is pretty crazy this is where you would store your fruit from the summer so you would Harvest all your apples in the fall bring them down here for the winter and they would stay preserve just because the temperatures are so cool and then even in this room there's a fireplace to heat the place and then there's actually another stairwell at the back of the kitchen which leads us up and instantly it gets warmer it's pretty incredible how the subtrain kitchen actually cools the food and now we're back where we were by the chapel and the dead Zoo for reference we're back in the foer that's the front door this is the back door which leads into the Chateau Courtyard which is super impressive especially from the view of the Drone seeing how large this Courtyard is in comparison to a human we even had the car pulling up earlier and here you get the true perspective of the Chateau so behind me that's where we're sleeping that's actually for rent so you can actually rent those rooms out and stay here there's a restaurant off to the left here and then behind me this is where the owner lives so we haven't even toured this entire wing and we haven't even toured the wing behind us here for perspective of just how freaking huge The Chateau is of everything we've seen what was the the craziest the most impressive the most beautiful thing that you saw again I want to thank the teams at Barnes International for giving us the opportunity to come out here to Normandy and share something that no one has really seen up until this point if you're new here subscribe give the video a like and with that we will see you in the next video
2023-11-25 14:00
