Château de Long

The Château de Long, in the Somme, between Abbeville and Amiens, is a private property open to visitors. It replaced a medieval fortress that controlled a crossing of the Somme. The present château was built in the first half of the 18th century for Honoré-Charles de Buissy, after the architect Charles-Étienne Briseux, and nicknamed the 'Folie de Buissy'.

Built of pink brick and white stone, it has a rectangular two-storey main building under a mansard roof, with three sculpted projections. Inside, some panelling by Jean-Baptiste Huet was sold to the United States; part of it, later bought back, is now in the Musée de l'Hôtel de Berny in Amiens. Sold in 1871 and again in 1916, the château was abandoned in the 1930s before being restored from 1964.

The twenty-hectare park includes hornbeam hedges, statues, a wash house, 19th-century greenhouses, a six-hectare lake and an 18th-century dovecote.

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