The Ideal Palace built by a postman called Cheval was built over a period of 33 years, between 1879 and 1912. It took him 10000 days/93000 hours to build.
The postman collected stones and shells to build his imaginary palace after his working hours.
A few corridors traverse the palace, decorated with faux-luminaries.
Gallic rooster, the symbol of France.
Cheval decorated the outside wall with famous foreign buildings sculptures. Cheval never traveled abroad and used books and his imagination to render those…