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Inside the gallery.
Château de Chenonceau is located at Chenonceaux, in the département of Indre-et-Loire in France.
From all of the châteaux I visited in the Loire Valley, this one was my favorite. The gardens were breathtakingly beautiful, the castle felt homely, and the food at the restaurant was fantastic.
Feel free to visit my blog Paris Pastry:
The Château de Chenonceau, near the small village of Chenonceau, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France, was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme.
Le château de Chenonceau est un château de la Loire situé en
Touraine, sur la commune de Chenonceaux, dans le département
d'Indre-et-Loire en région Centre-Val de Loire. Chenonceau avec sa
célèbre galerie à deux étages qui domine le Cher est l'un des
fleurons de l'architecture du Val de Loire.
Le château de Chenonceau est situé dans la commune de Chenonceaux en Indre-et-Loire (France). Il fait partie des châteaux communément appelés les châteaux de la Loire.
Chenonceau est construit, aménagé et transformé par des femmes très différentes de par leur tempérament. Il est édifié par Katherine Briçonnet en 1513, enrichi par Diane de Poitiers et agrandi sous Catherine de Médicis. Il devient un lieu de recueillement avec la reine blanche Louise de Lorraine, puis il est sauvegardé par Louise Dupin au cours de la Révolution française et enfin, métamorphosé par madame Pelouze. C'est ainsi qu'il est surnommé le château des Dames, car « cette empreinte féminine est partout présente, le préservant des conflits et des guerres pour en faire depuis toujours un lieu de paix. Château meublé, décoré de rares tapisseries et peintures anciennes, c'est le monument historique privé le plus visité de France, serti de plusieurs jardins d'agrément, un parc et un domaine viticole »3,4.
L'ensemble du domaine accueille annuellement 850 000 visiteurs5. Le château est classé au titre des monuments historiques depuis son inscription sur la liste de 1840 et le parc par arrêté en date du 7 novembre 1962.
Copper kitchen.
Château de Chenonceau is located at Chenonceaux, in the département of Indre-et-Loire in France.
From all of the châteaux I visited in the Loire Valley, this one was my favorite. The gardens were breathtakingly beautiful, the castle felt homely, and the food at the restaurant was fantastic.
Feel free to visit my blog Paris Pastry:
The Château de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme.
The original second edition[clarification needed] manor was torched in 1411 to punish owner Jean Marques for an act of sedition. He rebuilt a castle and fortified mill on the site in the 1430s. Subsequently, his indebted heir Pierre Marques sold the castle to Thomas Bohier, Chamberlain for King Charles VIII of France in 1513. Bohier destroyed the existing castle and built an entirely new residence between 1515 and 1521; the work was sometimes overseen by his wife Katherine Briçonnet, who delighted in hosting French nobility, including King Francis I on two occasions.
Eventually, the château was seized from Bohier's son by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown; after Francis' death in 1547, Henry II offered the château as a gift to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the château along the river. She would have the arched bridge constructed, joining the château to its opposite bank. She then oversaw the planting of extensive flower and vegetable gardens along with a variety of fruit trees. Set along the banks of the river, but buttressed from flooding by stone terraces, the exquisite gardens were laid out in four triangles.
Diane de Poitiers was the unquestioned mistress of the castle, but ownership remained with the crown until 1555, when years of delicate legal maneuvers finally yielded possession to her. However, after King Henry II died in 1559, his strong-willed widow and regent Catherine de' Medici had Diane expelled. Because the estate no longer belonged to the crown, she could not seize it outright, but forced Diane to exchange it for the Château Chaumont. Queen Catherine then made Chenonceau her own favorite residence, adding a new series of gardens.
Château de Chenonceau is located at Chenonceaux, in the département of Indre-et-Loire in France.
From all of the châteaux I visited in the Loire Valley, this one was my favorite. The gardens were breathtakingly beautiful, the castle felt homely, and the food at the restaurant was fantastic.
Feel free to visit my blog Paris Pastry: