have designed the staircase, but this has not been confirmed. Writer John Evelyn said of the staircase, "it is devised with four [sic] entries or ascents, which cross one another, so that though four persons meet, they never come in sight, but by small loopholes, till they land. It consists of 274 steps (as I remember), and is an extraordinary work, but of far greater expense than use or beauty."

The château also features 128 metres of façade, more than 800 sculpted columns and an elaborately decorated