Kapados Manor

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Le château en bref

Kapados Manor, in Gap, is a late nineteenth-century middle-class residence whose eclectic, Orientalist decoration draws heavily on the Neo-Egyptian repertoire. Built from 1882 for Clément Aubert, managing director of the Chemins de fer du Nord de l'Espagne (Northern Spain Railways), it was extended at the turn of the twentieth century: a Moorish kiosk from the 1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) was reassembled in the park. The estate includes a veranda, a terrace, a formal garden with a pond, an oriental-style fountain, an apiary and a tomb guarded by two sphinxes. A privately owned site, it was listed as a Monument historique on 2 December 1988 and partially classified on 12 December 1991.