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From its fabled châteaux and flower-filled villages to the fêted river at its heart, the magic of the Loire Valley never ...
Château de Chambord has 440 rooms and a fireplace for every day of the year. Courtesy of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door With its huge scale and prickly silhouette, Château de Chambord ...
Chambord subsequently passed to the Marshal-General de Saxe in 1745 as a reward for his victories over the British. This period saw the further ornamentation of the garden, particularly with regard to ...
Of the 300 or so chateaux along a Unesco-listed, 174-mile stretch of the Loire Valley, two hours south of Paris, Chateau de Chambord stands apart as the oldest, the largest and probably the strangest.
The Loire Valley has at least 300 châteaux and Chambord is the largest of all. It has 426 rooms, 282 fireplaces and 77 sets of stairs, including one reputedly designed by Leonardo da Vinci, but ...
Jean d'Haussonville, Director General of the national Domaine of Chambord, takes us on an exclusive tour of the château de Chambord, a masterpiece of the French Renaissance, and guides us through ...
Chambord subsequently passed to the Marshal-General de Saxe in 1745 as a reward for his victories over the British. This period saw the further ornamentation of the garden, particularly with regard to ...
I head to the Château de Cheverny, the inspiration for Marlinspike in the Tintin books, and look at portraits by Titian and Raphael, and furniture by Napoleon’s furniture maker, Georges Jacob.