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Rome wasn't built in day, and it certainly wasn't for rural postman Ferdinand Cheval, who dedicated 33 years of his life constructing an incredible limestone palace, complete with pillars, buttresses ...

The Palais Idéal in Hauterives, France is a unique structure. It is made entirely out of stones that postman Ferdinand Cheval collected on his mail route. One night, Cheval dreamed about building a ...

More than 120,000 people travel to the commune of Hauterives in southeastern France every year to see the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, a stunning palace constructed entirely from handpicked pebbles ...

Ferdinand Cheval was born the son of peasants in the tumultuous, newly democratic France. But as an old man, he became proprietor of a palace fit for a king—one he built stone-by-stone with his own ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Walking along his mail route in Hauterives, southern France in 1879, a postman picked ...

Self-taught French architect Ferdinand Cheval (1836–1924) stars in this quirky chronicle of the postman’s 33-year-long effort to build a stone palace by hand in Hauterives, France. Cheval “spent his ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The small town of Hauterives in south-eastern France is an unexpected stop on the international tourist circuit.

It’s the most palatial DIY project you’ll ever see. The French palace, Le Palais Idéal (“The Ideal Palace”), in Hauterives was built by a mail carrier out of the rocks he collected on his route over a ...

More than 120,000 people travel to the commune of Hauterives in southeastern France every year to see the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, a stunning palace constructed entirely from hand-picked ...

More than 120,000 people travel to the commune of Hauterives in southeastern France every year to see the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, a stunning palace constructed entirely from handpicked pebbles ...