Beast's Castle

### Inhabitants

Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip Potts, The Potts Children, Fifi, Maurice, Philippe, Sultan, Chef Bouche, Wardrobe, Angelique, Fife, Forte, Crane, Le Plume, Webster, Witherspoon, Chandeleria, Coat Rack, Music Box, Tubaloo, Tres, Chaude

### Visitors

Gaston, Enchantress, LeFou, Gaston's Buddies, other Villagers

**Beast's Castle** is he primary location of Disney's 1991 animated feature film, *Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)*. Initially, it is the home of Adam and his several servants including Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Chip, and soon becomes the home of Belle and her father, Maurice and their trusty horse, Philippe. The castle was inspired by the Chateau De Chambord in Loir-Et-Cher, France.

One Christmas night while Adam and some villagers were celebrating, an Enchantress places a powerful spell on the castle as punishment for the prince's arrogance and pride, turning the castle into a dark and mysterious place, removing its original grandeur and beauty. After Belle's love for Adam breaks the spell near the film's climax, the castle transforms into its initial elegance and charm, along with the original transformation of the prince and his servants.

## Background

In the castle, there are sixty rooms all-in-all. According to Cogsworth, while talking with Belle, the castle dates back to the Baroque period. Which presumably Late Baroque period, as that is when the French began using the Baroque architecture in their homes. The castle has two wings: the East and West Wing.

In the film, the end East Wing was Belle's room while the end of the West Wing is Adam's room. The West Wing has many broken items, as Adam may have destroyed those things when he became a beast. Meanwhile, the East Wing is nicely furnished. There is also a secret door in the West Wing to the former room of the organ Forte, so that Adam could relax.

In the beginning (and end) of the film, there were also several stained glass window, which depicts the story of Beauty and the Beast to depict the story to the locals.

## Places of Interest

**The Main Foyer****The Den****Prison Tower****West Wing****Ballroom**
## Disney Park

The first Beast's Castle exists at Disneyland Paris as one of the miniatures in their Storybook Land Canal Boats attraction.

A second one was built at Magic Kingdom for the Fantasyland expansion, as a forced perspective "bigature" built upon a cliff. It opened late 2012 and contains the Be Our Guest Restaurant with dining rooms in the Ballroom, the Dining Room and the West Wing.

A third miniature can be found at Hong Kong Disneyland, as part of its 10th anniversary's walk through attraction Fairy Tale Forest.

The fourth and most recent miniature is at Tokyo Disneyland, built as part of its 2020 Fantasyland expansion. The first time the castle has been built to a human scale, it stands 108 feet tall and will contain the Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast attraction.

## Trivia

* The majority of the sculptures seen in the castle are earlier versions of the Beast’s character design.
	+ Belle's fun fact video on the Disney Princess YouTube channel, however, erroneously claimed that the gargoyles were derived from the gargoyles of Notre Dame de Paris.
* In the 1989 screenplay for the film, the castle would have held a treasury filled with gold, just like in the original tale/1946 Jean Cocteau film. Beast would also have shown Belle the treasury.
* The ceiling fresco in Rococo in the Castle's Ballroom is reminiscent of the one seen in the *Wieskirche Church* in Bavaria.
* In the episode "The Perfect Word" of *Belle's Magical World*, it's revealed that, whilst the castle was essentially off-limits to outsiders, minimum contact and communication was maintained with the outside world, via correspondence (Witherspoon), as demonstrated with the Beast dictating a letter with an order for firewood to be delivered to the Castle. This is re-enforced in "Mrs. Potts' Party", where Cogsworth sends a letter to a friend to inquire about when the weather would change.
* In the opening scene, the first stained glass window contains a banner underneath the prince that says "Vincit qui se Vincit," which is Latin for "He conquers who conquers himself."
* According to materials attached to the Broadway adaptation, ("Disney's Beauty and the Beast: A Celebration of the Broadway Musical"), the Castle's interior features a combination of different architectural styles―gothic, baroque, rococo, and empire―"all coming together to make a castle that seems monumental in scale".
* One of the concept artworks for the castle bears a resemblance to the palace of Versailles. It also resembles Chateau De Chambord.