Palate

See also: Palate (homonymy)

A palate indicates a building Monument Al:

1. urban place of residence of an important character, living a Princely way of life or sumptuous;
2. seat of an public institution, in which is held the exercise of the To be able ;
3. (appeared) flattering exaggeration for a Manor or a Great property.

It is necessary to note the difference between the palate and the Château. The name of palate in French is reserved for an urban residence, whereas the castle is generally rural: thus one speaks about the Palate of Louvre or the Palais Royal, but of the Castle of Versailles or the Castle of Fontainebleau.

On this topic, to see the articles Castle and List of French castles.

This article relates to the description of their function first, except situation and patrimonial current meaning.

The ancient palate

the reader, to obtain a vision of the palates in the History and the palates of antiquity, will refer to the detailed article ancient Palais .

Palate during the Western Middle Ages

The standard plan in term of palate during the Middle Ages can be regarded as the palate of Charlemagne of Aachen. This one consists of a aula (room of reception), of a vault (built by Eudes of Metz) and of a domestic part; to see.

Taking into account the time not very sure and devastated by the wars and the calamities, construction more in vogue is the strong Château, whose principal function is protection and not approval. The princes direct their campaigns of war, and live at the court only the winter. In Europe, only a Moorish dynasty continues in continuity the ancient traditional time.

However, at the beginning of the 14th century, in more pacified company, the palate remakes its appearance, giving rise to some chiefs of work of the Gothic, whose more good example was the palate from the City in Paris, built by Philippe Beautiful the and whose remainders give an outline of its splendor to its apogee. With the war of Hundred-Years, nevertheless, the fortifications become again necessary, and one attends the construction of true " palate-forteresses" for the large princes. Thus, Bertrand de Goth, become the pope Clement V, built for him and his family a continuation of " palate-forteresses" , whose Villandraut, Roquetaillade and Fargues is still today of good examples. It would also be necessary to quote the palate of the popes, in Avignon, the vastest Gothic building existing in Europe.

• France:
• Palate of the City to Paris
• Palate of the Popes to Avignon
• Palate of the kings de Majorque with Perpignan
• British Isles
• Palate of Westminster, rebuilt with the XIXe century.
• Spain:
• Palate nasrides
• palate of summer of the Généralife
• Tchéquie:
• Castle of Prague

Palate of the Old Mode

• France:

• Palate of Louvre, now affected with the Museum of Louvre;
• Palate of Tileries, in Paris, now destroyed and which connected the two wings of the palate of Louvre
• Palais Royal, in Paris

• British Isles:

• Palate of Buckingham
• Palate of Kensington

the manors of province were built by the land great landowners, representative of a certain aristocratic class of the British Lords . They bear the name of palate, which in English does not have the same direction that in French and are not necessarily located at the countryside. See List of British castles

• Germanic Countries: develops the architecture of, which becomes a Germanic equivalent of the House of Lords of political representation.

Palate of the New World

• the USA:
• Hearst Castle

Other palates

• the Palais of the Vatican is the official residence of the popes in the Vatican.
• palates of Saudi Arabia
• the large palace of Thailand

See too

References

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