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Aigle Castle, Municipality of Aigle, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

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Aigle Castle - SWITZERLAND

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Aigle,château entouré de vignes par Jean-Daniel Echenard Via Flickr : Aigle,canton de Vaud,région du Chablais--En plein vignoble se dresse l'imposant Château d'Aigle, forteresse édifiée au XIIe siècle par la Savoie et remaniée par les Bernois dès la fin du XVe siècle. Une grande majorité de la récolte de raisins sert à la fabrication de vin blanc sec,une toute petite partie pour du vin rouge.Un musée sur le vin et étiquettes de vin se trouve dans cet édifice.

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Aigle Castle - Aigle, Switzerland

Our entire reason for visiting this location was to visit a castle, so here we are. Today we are going down to Aigle to visit the Aigle Castle (pictured above). We took the tram down and walked the short distance out to the castle. The little town of Aigle was practically deserted as we made our way through the streets. We passed this pictue-perfect church along the way:

We arrived at the castle gate, purchased our tickets for a self-guided tour and off we went.

The gang at the castle entrance.

Some of the old wine barrels, made specifically to fit into this room. Notice the old barrel taps on the back wall.

The first part of the tour is an exhibit of old winery equipment - can’t tell you what all of these items did, but they were heavy and manually operated:

The next part of the tour took us through different rooms, along with a wine museum/education area.

Wine hall.

Not sure why this door was shaped this way, perhaps it was just decorative.

The floors and doorways were interesting and beautifully designed.

Chair-back carving in one of the rooms.

There was a room full of old bottle labels from the Aigle winery. They had chests of drawers that you could open, each drawer had multiple old labels on display. Here are a few samples:

There was also a room for learning a bit about wine - aromas and colors, etc. (pictured below):

We then roamed around the upper balcony of the castle, giving us great views of the surrounding area:

The courtyard, where we entered the castle.

Looking out at the vineyards.

The terraced hillsides that surround Aigle, if you look closely at the clump of trees near the bottom center of the picture there is a lizard shaped out of the white rocks.

Some examples of the beautiful paintings on the castle walls are pictured below:

Post-castle group picture (I think Doug was dreaming about a cold beer!). Time to find some place to eat!

As I noted earlier, things were pretty quiet in Aigle. We struggled to find a place to eat, fortunately, Rachel and Tyler found a place that fit their needs. However, the Doug and Dan wanted a beer and wanted to sit outside - which was not an option at the place Rachel and Tyler picked. So they stayed there to get their food and we wandered back to a little pub we had seen earlier. I grabbed a table outside and the guys went in to order. It took them a while and when they came back out, they said “We ordered, but we aren’t exactly sure what we are going to get!” The staff did not speak English and we did not speak French/German, but the guys thought they had ordered beers and a couple of pizza-like dishes. We all had to laugh when 4 beers were delivered to our table and 3 flammekueche - all of which were delicious! Rachel and Tyler arrived just in time for Tyler to enjoy that extra beer!

Beer and flammekueche.

One of the pretty, deserted streets of Aigle.

A very cool neighborhood in Aigle. The apartments were connected by wooden, covered walkways over the streets.

On our way back up to Leysin, the sun came out and we had a spectacular last view of the castle and the surrounding countryside from the tram. Tomorrow we head to Interlaken for a couple of days.

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Le chateau d'Aigle by Patrick Bellon

Aigle, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

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Замок Эгль / Château d'Aigle

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Thursday, 23 August 1827 (travel journals)

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1 55/60

Rain all last night, and rainy morning till between 9’ and 10 – fair when we started – Breakfast from 8 1/4 to 9 1/2 –

off from Bex at 9 50/60 – very comfortable Inn, but not cheap – generally full of English – Lady Ross and her daughter there for a fortnight while the rest of of her party went to the Great St. Bernard – Bex a nice little town – good church – hedges on each side the road of sloe, hazel, and sometimes quickweed, etc

at 10 10/60 wood bridge over little stream – 10 1/4 first appearance of the tints of autumn – valley wider – fertile – mountains well wooded – clouds along them – vines, walnuts, Indian corn, etc etc

at 11, Aigle, quite a ville – 2 churches – castle – pretty large town – narrow streets – no good houses – just a the end of the town, cross wooden bridge over stream –

at 11 40/60 picturesque village – at 12 neat little village –

at 12 55/60 1st peep at the lake (of Geneva) –

Lake Geneva, CC BY-SA 3.0

at 12 20/60 stop at Villeneuve to bait the horses– goodish church of pretty good little town – off at 1 20/60 – the lake too Extensive for me, and the mountains on the south side too low –

Castle of Chillon, CC BY-SA 4.0

at 1 40/60 stop at the castle of Chillon, now used by the government as a powder magazine, and a guard mounted – one family living there – very respectable people – the woman shewed us all she could – the prison, oubliette (3 stories deep – into which those were let down destined to die of hunger) one or 2 of the galleries, one or 2 of the rooms (the great hall – kitchen now occupied by this family) and the court in which some of the prisoners were allowed to walk – the prison 45 by 20 of my common paces – the broadeth of the 1st 6 paces of length equally divided (since in the Swiss power) into entrance and a dungeon (right) – lofty – 8 columns supporting 7 moderately pointed arches down the middle of the prison – BYRON cut with a penknife by Lord B– [Byron] himself, on the 3rd column on entering – the prieure Bonnivard chained to the next, or 4th column – perhaps about 18 feet high to the Top of the vaulting – the prison partly cut out of the Sandstone rock – spacious, and light enough, and airy – quite a paradise compared with the cells of the inquisition at Venice –

40 minutes at the castle, and off at 2 20/60 – very pretty drive along the lake – the back-look upon the castle, and Villeneuve, and its lofty steeple, and the dark, high mountains stretching thence close along the lake towards Meillerie, fine –

after passing the pretty little village of Vernet, very soon alighted at the still prettier village of Clarens so celebrated by Rousseau, and when Lord Byron passed 2 or 3 nights – inquired for the house to which his lordship had taken such a fancy – stumbled upon the very spot – a nut-brown, respectable farmer’s wife of about 60 was proud to tell us how she had entertained his lordship and his friend (some foreign baron) – they were caught in a storm on the lake – his lordship would insist upon it, the house must be an auberge, and would go there – the old woman made all comfortable and his lordship was so pleased, said he would go again, and did afterwards go for 2 nights – she said he had paid her well (for the 1st night) – I had the curiosity to ask what he gave her – a Napoleon – we were all taken with the place – the woman said she had cried like a child, when her brother (who has a very nice house close by – rebuilt on the spot on which stood Rousseau’s house) brought her the paper containing the account of his death – he was so good – had une telle manière – never saw anyone who had such a manner – there, said she, is the little sofa on which he sat writing the night he came in from the storm – there had been a young lady to look at his bed, and she had kissed it 20 times – mylady (Lady B– [Byron]) too had been there, but unluckily the old woman (she looks strong and hale and active) was from home – had taken the key of the room with her and Lady B– [Byron] could not see it – the husband a respectable looking farmer – they have a nice little apartment upstairs (au 2nd) for 9 or 10 napoleons a year, now let to an old couple – went up to see it – the old lady, 80, skipped, and danced, and shewed us all her perfect set of teeth, and chatted away delighted to find Mrs and Miss B– [Barlow] were from Paris where she (Swiss) had made money as femme de charge in high French families – was there during the revolution – 55 minutes with these good people who brought us cake (Swiss gauffers, Excellent etc) and offered wine, or anything they had, and did not get off till 3 40/60 having 1st taken the address of Lord B–‘s [Byron’s] friend Françoise Paoli, née Muzigny, Clarens près de Montreux, a pretty looking little town that we had passed at a little distance up the hill, to the right.

Tour de Piel a good village – alight at the 3 crowns at Veveay at 4 1/2 – got out Miss MacL–‘s [Maclean’s] letter (brought with me from England) and went with to Mrs Falconet Faviholme (pronounced Farum), 3 doors below the Inn – not at home – left a line or 2 in pencil to say how glad I should be to see her for a few moments –

Mrs and Miss B– [Barlow] and I then took a little saunter – to the post-office, and the handsome cornmarket supported on Tuscan columns in the grande place, and came in at 6 10/60 –

sat down to dinner at the table d’hote at 6 1/2 – Mrs F– [Falconet] F– [Faviholme] and her sister came immediately – went up and received them in my bedroom where they sat with me chatting for an hour – promised to go to them for a little after dinner if I could – Mrs F– [Falconet] F–[ Faviholme] reminded me a little of Miss MacL– [Maclean] she is Tall, and thin, delicate looking, quiet, and ladylike, and seems a nice woman – ditto but in a less degree her sister –

then went down to Dinner – people are so long here at the Table d’hôte, I had time enough to get all I wanted and make a good dinner and left the table with the rest at 8 1/4 – then immediately went to the Falconets – 5 brothers, so each for distinction adds the name of his wife to his own, and thus my friends friend is madame F– F[alconet] F– [Faviholme] chatted – drank tea, and sat with them till 9 40/60 – Mr Falconet Faviholme apparently an amiable good sort of man – a Swiss gentleman, I suppose, in manners – but not a thorough bred English man – yet very civil and attentive, and walked back with me – very fine day – not much sun, and Mrs and Miss thought it cold –

reference number: SH:7/ML/TR/2/0012, SH:7/ML/TR/2/0013

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dreamy stuff in french & swedish

loosely based on this list x by myself, the painting is Les Oréades by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1902. please study this list while listening to Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A minor. for flowers in swedish and french click here x, for romantic stuff in swedish and french click here x

(la) magie - magic - magi(n)

magique - magical - magisk

(la) fée - fairy - fé(n)

(la) nymphe - nymph - nymf(en)

(la) magie noire - black magic - svart magi

(le) brouillard - fog - dimma(n)

(le) coucher du soleil - sunset - solnedgång(en)

(le) lever du soleil - sunrise - soluppgång(en)

(l’) aube - dawn - gryning(en)

(le) rêve - dream - dröm(en)

rêver - to dream - att drömma

(la) rêverie - daydream - dagdröm(men)

(l’) étoile - star - stjärna(n)

(la) lune - moon - måne(n)

(le) ciel - sky - himmel(en)

(le) nuage - cloud - moln(et)

beau, belle - beautiful - vacker(t)

(la) neige - snow - snö(n)

(le) flocon de neige - snowflake - snöflinga(n)

doré(e) - golden (gilded) - förgyll(t)(d)

d’or - golden - gyllene

calme, tranquille - calm - lugn(t)

étheré(e) - etherial - eterisk

(la) beauté - beauty - skönhet(en)

(l’) amour - love - kärlek(en)

(l’) amant, amante - lover - älskare(n), älskarinna(n)

(la) nuit - night - natt(en)

(le) matin - morning - morgon(en)

(le) soir - evening - kväll(en), afton(en)

(la) fleur - flower - blomma(n)

(la) lumière - light - ljus(et)

(la) poési - poetry - poesi(n)

(la) sirène - mermaid - sjöjungfru(n)

(le), (la) poète - poet - poet(en)

(la) forêt - forest - skog(en)

(la) forêt vierge - pristine forest - urskog(en)

la forêt noire - the black forest - svartskogen (Schwarzwald) 

(la) pleine lune - full moon - fullmåne(n)

(la) peinture - painting - måleri(et), målning(en)

(l’) hibou - owl - uggla(n)

(l’) hirondelle - swallow - svala(n)

(l’) alouette - lark - lärka(n)

(la) bergeronnette - wagtail - domherre

(le) lynx - lynx - lodjur 

(l’) ombre - shadow - skugga(n)

(l’) aigle - eagle - örn(en)

(le) tourbillon - whirlwind - stormvind(en)

(le) fleuve, (la) rivière - river - flod(en), å(n), bäck(en), älv(en)

(l’) été - summer - sommar(en)

(le) printemps - spring - vår(en)

(l’) automne - autumn - höst(en)

(l’) hiver - winter - vinter(n)

(le) château - castle - slott(et)

(la) chanson - song - sång(en)

chanter - to sing - att sjunga

lire - to read - att läsa

(l’) orchestre - orchestra - orkester(n)

(la) musique - music - musik(en)

(la) mer - sea - sjö(n)

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Hendrik Frans de Cort - Mont-Aigle Castle, near Dinant - 

Montaigle Castle (French: Château de Montaigle) is a ruined medieval castle in Falaën in the municipality of Onhaye, province of Namur, Wallonia.

It was built in the 14th century, and destroyed by Henry II of France in 1554. It stands on a rocky spur overlooking the valleys of the Molignée and of the Flavion.

The site was used during the Late Roman period for a Belgo-Roman fortification.

Hendrik de Cort or Hendrik Frans de Cort (1742 in Antwerp – 28 June 1810 in London) was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman. His international career brought him to Antwerp, Paris, England and Wales. He is mainly remembered for his topographical paintings and drawings of English castles, country houses, parks and ruins.

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Aigle Castle par Geolilli Via Flickr : Switzerland

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Castle of Aigle by jtrof

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Castle of Aigle