Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall.

The Château de Cheverny was used as a model for Marlinspike Hall. The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in The two outermost wings are not present, but the remaining central tower and two wings are almost identical.

Marlinspike Hall (Le château de Moulinsart in the original French-Belgian) is Captain Haddock's Country house in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages which are in order from the greatest speaker population to the smallest Dutch (in a Belgian context often Captain Archibald Haddock ( Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the Comic book series The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great Georges Prosper Remi ( May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983) better known by the Pen name Hergé, was a Belgian A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin is a series of Comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi

The hall is modeled after the central section of the Château de Cheverny. The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in The French name is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; in an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the Marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes. Braine-l'Alleud is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant, about 20 kilometers south of Brussels Walloon Brabant ( French: Brabant-Wallon, Dutch: Waals-Brabant; Roman Payis is a province of Wallonia in Belgium The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Marlinspike (sometimes marlin spike, marlinespike, or the archaic marlingspike) is a tool used in Ropework for tasks such as Seamanship is the art of operating a ship or boat It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills including Navigation and international Rope splicing in Ropework is the forming of a semi-permanent join between two Ropes or two parts of the same rope by partly untwisting and then interweaving their strands

Marlinspike Hall first appears in The Secret of the Unicorn as the home of the story's villains, the Bird Brothers. The Secret of the Unicorn ( Le Secret de la Licorne) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written See also List of The Adventures of Tintin characters, for a complete list The supporting characters Hergé created for his series The Adventures At the end of Red Rackham's Treasure, the manor is purchased by Professor Calculus on behalf of the Captain; the fabled treasure itself is found hidden in the manor's old chapel, in the cellars. Red Rackham's Treasure ( French: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series Professor Cuthbert Calculus ( Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower or Tryphonius Litmus Paper) is a Fictional In the following years, Marlinspike provides a home base for Tintin and Haddock in between their various adventures. In The Castafiore Emerald, virtually all of the action takes place in the hall, its grounds, or the surrounding countryside. The Castafiore Emerald ( Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Belgian writer and

Marlinspike Hall is presented as a large and luxurious dwelling adorned with numerous works of art, antique furniture, and a gallery of the Haddock family's treasures. The grounds comprise a park with extensive woodlands, wide lawns, a rose garden, a high surrounding wall, at least two gates, a neighbouring meadow, and at least one adjacent building (used by Professor Calculus as a laboratory in The Calculus Affair ). The Calculus Affair ( French: L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic The size of the house and park would appear to require a number of domestic and gardening staff but only one - the faithful Nestor, who serves as butler to the Hall - is ever seen. Nestor is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic Comic books drawn and written by Hergé.

Translations

• Catalan: Molins de dalt
• Danish: Møllenborg Slot (literally: Millburg Castle)
• Dutch: Kasteel Molensloot
• Finnish: Moulinsartin linna
• Persian: کاخ مولنسار (Ka'kh-e-Moulansar)
• Portuguese (including Brazilian): Castelo de Moulinsart
• French: Château de Moulinsart
• German: Schloss Mühlenhof
• Icelandic: Myllusetur
• Spanish: Castillo de Moulinsart
• Swedish: Moulinsarts slott