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French Cloister at Versailles Gardens

Coordinates: 25°4′49″N 77°18′36″W / 25.08028°N 77.31000°W / 25.08028; -77.31000
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French Cloister at Versailles Gardens
(This perspective (bottom) is known on The Beatles' 1965 movie Help![1][2])

French cloister is situated in the northern Bahamas, on Paradise Island. It is from a 14th-century Augustinian monastery, dismantled and imported from Europe by William Randolph Hearst. Purchased while still in pieces from Hearst's estate by Huntington Hartford and reassembled stone by stone here as the centerpiece of the Versailles Gardens on Paradise Island.[3] Overlooks Nassau Harbor to one side, and the One & Only Ocean Club resort to the other.

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  1. ^ Matteo, Steve (2023). Act Naturally - The Beatles on Film. Backbeat. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-4930-5902-7. March 5 saw location shooting at Cabbage Beach, Victoria Beach, and the French Cloisters with John, Paul, and George souting for Ringo. The French Cloisters location, part of a fourteenth-century French monastery, was also seen in two James Bond films, Thunderball and the 2006 James Bond movie version of Casino Royale.
  2. ^ "Photo: French Cloisters as featured in the Beatles 1965 movie "Help!"" (photo album).
    In: Cheryl's Bahamas Taxi and Private Tours (2017-03-02). "Fantastic Service and Tour Guide!". Tripaddvisor.
  3. ^ "Cloisters Paradise Island". practicalparadiseisland.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-22. Augustinian monks in France built the original monastery; William Randolph Hearst bought it and had it shipped to the US. After that, Huntington Hartford, the A&P; supermarket heir and developer of the former Hog Island into Paradise Island, bought the stones and had the Cloisters reassembled on its present site.

25°4′49″N 77°18′36″W / 25.08028°N 77.31000°W / 25.08028; -77.31000