It is in this
apartment that Tintin will live until the "Land of black
gold" adventure. If we trust the clues left in his flat and
outside of it (uniforms, stamps, etc.), Tintin could be
settled in Belgium. To draw Tintin's first home Hergé
had been inspired by the flats in the "rue de
Terre-Neuve". His first apartment is
quite impersonally furnished. However we find some souvenirs
brought from China. It seems that Tintin moved floor between
"The Crab with the golden claws" and "The Shooting Star".
Because he was first living in the first floor and then goes
to the second without any changes set in the album. The
answer still stays a mystery. Later on in his adventures
Tintin will leave this flat to go on a modern one with large
windows.
Marlinspike Hall became Captain
Haddock's main home after "The Red Rackham's treasure"
adventure. It was the Bird Brothers' one before it. Nestor
will still be the butler of this castle which will have
Professor Calculus and Tintin and Snowy as main
inhabitants. To draw Marlinspike Hall, Hergé
was inspired by the Cheverny Castle situated in France.
However he eliminated the left and right wings of the
Castle. And to find his name, Hergé reversed the name
of a Belgian village called Sart-Moulin. (In French
Marlinspike Hall is said Moulinsart).
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The Cheverny Castle is situated in Val de Loire, between the
Chambord and Chenonceau Castles. You can easily access to it
from Paris or by train.
www.chateau-cheverny.fr
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Here is the famous Tarragon's house.
To draw this villa, Hergé had been inspired by a real
house situated near Brussels. But as you can see the garden
has been drawn bigger than in reality.
6 avenue Delleur
Watermael-Boitsfort
Belgium
Here is the famous Cornavin Hotel. It
has become very popular in Switzerland.
The mythic room of Professor Calculus hasn't always existed.
Indeed the room number 122 has been built in 1999 during the
Hotel renovation.
However the key of this room has been often stolen but
inside of this new styled bedroom, no Tintin decoration have
been made.
Hôtel Cornavin, Genève ****
Gare de Cornavin, 1201 Genève
Tél. (41) 22 716 12 12, Fax: (41) 22 716 12 00
cornavin@fhotels.ch
Here is the Professor Topolino's house
where Professor Calculus had to go to in order to speak to
him about his ultrasounds machine. But unfortunately he will
be kidnapped before and the house will explode because of a
bomb put in the house's basement.
57 bis route de Saint-Cergue
Nyon
Switzerland
tourism@nyon.ch
Here is a photograph of the cemetery
where is situated Hergé's tomb. The famous cartoonist
died in March 3rd 1983 because of a lung disease.
Dieweg Cemetery
avenue du Dieweg in Uccle
Belgium
It's been very long but in January
2003 for the first time Angouleme (a French town) changed
the name of one of its street.The pedestrian "Marengo
street" became "Rue Hergé" (Hergé street). Hergé street (Marengo
street)
It is the second time that a street is named as
"Hergé"- the county of Céroux-Mousty in
Belgium has also changed the name of the "Ferrières
street" which was the street where Hergé lived with
his wife Germaine. The house is still there near another
comics drawer's one called Jacques Martin.
Hergé street (Ferrières street)
Céroux-Mousty
Belgium
Angoulême
France