Chateaux Of The Loire Valley Click On The Image To Enlarge |
| Chateau de Chaumont The Château de Chaumont is a French castle. It was the first château at Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, France. It was built by Eudes II, Count of Blois, in the 10th century with the purpose of serving as a fortress to protect the Blois from attacks. Currently a museum & every year there is a Garden Festival from June to October where contemporary garden designers display their work in an English-style garden. | www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chaumont |
| Chateau De Valencay Valençay is one of the finest Renaissance monuments in France. The most striking part of the construction is the magnificent entrance pavilion from which visitors have a view of a finely decorated symbolic keep. Valençay's grandeur stems in part from the admirable garden setting, offering a mix of formal perfection in the French-style garden, and extensive natural parkland laid out as an English landscape garden roamed by deer and peacock. | www.chateau-valencay.com/fr/valencay/ |
| Chateau De Usse The Château d'Ussé is located in the commune of Rigny-Ussé in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France. Ussé was the castle Charles Perrault had in mind when writing "Sleeping Beauty". Inside is an impressive Wax Work Display of 'The Sleeping Beauty' being awoken by her Prince. | www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d'Uss%C3%A9 |
' | Chateau Du Rivau The 12 gardens evoke the wonderful stories and legends that literature has provided. This pleasant walk, Gargantua's Kitchen Garden, the Enchanted Forest, the Flowery Meadow, the Delightful Border, the Lovers Wood, the Landscape Balcony, the Cassinina, the Orchard of Paradise, the Petit Poucet's Path and the Secret Garden, are many illustrations of themes from fairytale imagination.
Elves, ogres, giants, good fairies and fantastic topiary animals accompany the visitors' steps. | www.chateaudurivau.com/english/Chateau.htm |
| Chateau Chenonceau Built on the river Cher, where the unique beauty of its architecture reflects in the water. Château des Dames as recorded in the French history books, Chenonceau owes a large part of its charm to women: it was built in 1513 by Katherine Briçonnet, then made even more attractive by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Médicis, and saved from the rigours of the French Revolution by Mrs Dupin.
The lovely surroundings, the formal garden and the park surrounding it add to the impression of delicate grace emanating from the castle. | www.chenonceau.com |
| Chateau At Amboise The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France.
Built on a promontory overlooking the Loire River to control a strategic ford, that was replaced in the Middle Ages by a bridge, the château began its life in the eleventh century, when the notorious Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou, rebuilt the stronghold in stone. Amboise was the site where a garden laid out somewhat in the Italian manner was first seen in France: the site of the origin of the French formal garden. | www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d'Amboise |
| Chateau Azzay-Le-Rideau It is in the creative environment of the early years of the reign of François 1er that was built the castle of Azay. Located in Touraine, it is in the prestigious châteaux of the Loire Valley, where the kings of France liked to stay for a century. The educational service of the monument is to try and understand the building and its site for young audiences, through visits playful, guided tours and workshops discoveries Heritage animated in collaboration with visual artists, dancers, storytellers and musicians. | www.azay-le-rideau.be/www/presentation.htm |
| Chateau De Saumur Located in the French town of Saumur, in the Maine-et-Loire département, the Château de Saumur was originally constructed in the tenth century by Thibault le Tricheur, comte de Blois as a fortified stronghold against Norman predations. It overlooks the confluence of the Loire and the River Thouet. In 1621 the castle was converted into an army barracks then into a state prison under Napoleon Bonaparte. The Château de Saumur has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1862. | www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Saumur |