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Visit The Chateau of Loire: A Trip HAS The French Valley Of The Kings

The name The Loire Inspire pictures of castles of story of romantic fairies, the histories of the Plantagenets and the Medicis and the royal intrigue, and the valleys and the luxurious green vineyards surrounding the sector rivers.
Known as the The valley of the Kings, The royal French constructed their houses, creating here a region without equal of beautiful and historic architecture.
But, the this is not just the impressive castles (that are the attraction; the fascinating histories of the people that lived in them oblige totalment.
Are at the under the principal chateaux of the The salaries of the Loire.
Most of these chateaux is constructed alongside the Loire, the 'the royal river', and often are constructed on medieval, or even neolithic, the sites.
A lot are done the local tuf, a white limestone that adds to the elegant style of the chateaux.
Someone are houses always of the deprived, someone were transformed in museums, and someone has their own vineyards and offers snack to wine.

Chateaux found in the French Department (the county) of Maine-Et-Loire

Angers

More than 1000 old years, this giant of tuf and the slate-gray one neglecting the River of Maine is typical castles met on the crusades to the Holy Earth.
Constructs on the buildings of city of gallo-romain, in the bend position on a neolithic site dating back to 4500 - 4000 before J c, the chateau of the Accounts of Anjou is surrounded by a fortress built by Louis of Saint.
With the high walls of 30 meters and 17 turns, the it was key in the defense of Anjou and the biggest strengthened castle in France.
The beautiful gardens of World of the of Attack improve your visit to the castle.
The chateau lodges the Tapestry of Apocalypse celebrates - the biggest medieval tapestry in the world - ordered by Duke Louis I of Anjou in the mid-1370's.

Montsoreau

In this Small picturesque City of Character, Montsoreau is one of the more romantic one of the whole chateaux in the Valley of Loire.
A good party of his fame is based on the novel of Dumas of popular Alexander, 'The Lady of Montsoreau', writes in 1860, and to the castle that you can learn from this beautiful Lady of Montsoreau.
High Elever above the Loire and the rivers of Coming, the chateau neglects three historic provinces: Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou.
In contrast to the other castles by the Loire, Montsoreau was constructed in fact close to the river.
A combination of castle and the grandiose residence, the chateau is the framework for the spectacular one 'the Histories of the Loire', that pays the tribut to the 'the royal river'.

The plessis-bourre

The plessis-bourre Chateau is so beautiful, it is used as together for a lot of French films.
Constructs between 1468 and 1473 by John Stuffs, this defensive castle is done rock of tuf, has ditches fill with wide waters, a double bridge levis, a strengthened portals, and a big towers and a parapets. But beyond the house of custodian, The Plessis stops being a fortress and becomes a country house.
A course spacieuse surrounded by the arcades and neglected by in an in demand way the windows of mullioned take to the filled with house with the richly furnished pieces.
Recently a covered avenue takes to the chapel, the library is long of 36 meters and contains more than 3000 volumes.
The fascinating Room ds Keep has a painted ceiling painting strange allegorical faces of which the presence and the direction are a mystery.

Brissac

To seven high histories, Brissac is the biggest chateau and is called in France 'The Giant of the Valley of Loire'.
It is welcomed the Dukes of Brissac and is since 1502 today the residence of the 13rd Duke of Brissac.
15th fortress of original century, remain there two medieval towers and the old cellars (the wine tasting available).
The Chateau of Brissac has 203 pieces somptueuxment decorated, a theater of Beautiful Epoque of nineteenth exceptional century, the ceilings of in now decorated leaf, the tapestries of Flemish and Gobelin, and a wooded park of 70 magnificent hectares.
In 1620, Louis XIII and his court remained in Brissac to sign a peace treaty for his mother, Mary of Medicis, that was exiled in Angers.
This chateau and the this is owners were of such attraction and of huge importances that the future Henry II of France declared, "If I was not heir apparent, I would like to be a Brissac".

Breze

A chateau under a chateau, Breze is a rare example of a castle of cave-dweller, with the medieval underground passage miles furnishing the biggest ancestral underground abode in Europe. Above the ground, Breze Chateau has 16th walls and of nineteenth century and a deep dry ditch of 18 meters - the deeply in Europe.
Once possessed by the Prince of Conde, this huge chateau was in the family of dreux-brezes and is for 400 years currently the house to the Account and Comtesse of Colbert.
Breze is surrounded by the vineyards - the wines here were done since the15th century - and you can visit the cellars, the press, and the mill.

Montreuil Bellay

At first a medieval fortress incorporated the 11st century by the Foulques Nerra infamous (The Hawk of Black one), montreuil-bellay Chateau had an ancestral abode added the 15th century.
The montreuil-bellay city was constructed on a rocky emergence and is the last one to survive the strengthened city of the 32 that held once in Anjou. Surrounded by the vineyards, the charming city kept a medieval atmosphere.
The chateau has splendid medieval kitchens, a church of high school, and was one of the most of the important places to hunt with the hawks in the 13rd century.
The chateau produces the wines of AOC - red, the white, the rose, and effervescent.
The grapes are harvested to the hand and the wine is clogged to the castle. Taste sales and wine is available.

Squeezing

The architects, the builders, and the artists did Squeezing the prince among Anjou chateaux. To lived in by the same family since the 18th century, this Renaissance chateau has one of the more goods collections private of furnishings in France - the offices are truly exceptional. There is also a magnificent library with 12,000 volumes, the magnificent tapestries, the art objects, and the furnishings of the Beautiful Epoque.
The evenings in the month of July and August has the dressed guides in the suits of Beautiful Epoque - the entry by the reservation only.

The plessis-lacrymoga¨ne

With the exterior defenses dates back to the 12nd century, this strengthened manoir has superb views on the Loire.
The plessis-lacrymoga¨ne is one to appeal jumbles styles and of equipment with his combined usage of shale and of tuf.
Louis of Beaumont was the most significant one Of The plessis-mace the 15th lords of century.
A knight on the order of st-michael, his chapel is dedicated to the holy dragon killing
Always a residence, the chateau welcomes the Festival of Anjou the theatrical presentation every summer.

Saumur

Neglect the Loire, the Chateau of Saumur is a joy to contemplate. Constructs, destroys by the invaders, and rebuilt several times between the ninth and 14th centuries, the castle was a defense key in to protect the approach the east to Anjou.
The turns and the walls of the 1360 survived and offer a beautiful view on the landscape. The castle used the barracks and as a prison - the Marquis of Sade was held the captive one here for an instant.
The city bought it in 1906 and undertook the work of vast restoration, and it lodges now the Museum of Decorative Arts and the equitation Museum.

Montgeoffroy

Montgeoffroy Chateau is a place where a positions of time always - nothing changed since the Marechal of Contades, the governor of Strasburg, had constructed it, decorated, and furnished between 1772 and 1775.
It welcomed that the same family since. The marshal asked Nicholas Blocks, an architect of Parisian, to conceive it around a beautiful chapel and two turns remaining of a former chateau. The interior, the pieces kept their original call and their good taste: the pictures by the old masters, the well original furniture, and in the kitchens are radiates of copper shine that appear so good today as the day as they were done.
With his facade in white rock softened by a roof of slate-gray and the big pink fireplaces, Montgeoffroy is one of the most of the remarkable masterpieces of 18th architecture of French century.
Telephone: 02 41 80 60 02.

Wallow

Historically a jewel in the crown for the sector of Baugeois - the chateau was a favorite residence of Voucher the King Rene - the importance of Chateau of Wallows increased with the big number of lodgings and of rich dependances in the sector. The a lot small one dominates the dry noise on outside the trees next to the small river of Dormouse.
The interior, the chateau shines with its porcelain collections, of weapons, and of furniture.
There is also an old pharmacist that is considered one of the better collections in France.

Durtal

Elever of the waters of the Dormouse on six floors to threaten on the city to the under, Chateau of Durtal was the jealousy of a lot of big historic faces, including Henry II of France, Charles X, Catherine of Medici, and Louis XIII.
The monarchy was fascinated to appreciate the method of splendid life offer by the chateau.
The visitors are invited to explore the summit castle to be founded, receiving the cutting piece, the kitchens, and the prisons.
The wall walk offers a good view of the sector.

The Lorie

The Chateau of the Lorie was the example to live graceful with its sculptures of wooded park, the architecture, the magnificent library, and an orangery where the first pineapples of the sector were grown.
The chateau has a piece of drawing of magnificent marble, that the English royal family is said to have admired strong when they remained here as the guests.
There are also the remainders of a farm of nail.

Chateaux found in the French Department (the county) of Sarthe:

Laval

Constructs on a rocky edperon in the 11st century and rebuilt in the 16th century, the Laval Chateau neglects the river and offers superb views of the old city.
The interior is The Museum of Naif of Art, one of the more goods museums of folk art containing a collection of certain ones of the biggest international masters of picture of Naif of Art.
There is also a reproduction of studio of Rousseau of customs Officer of local artist.
The telephone of office of tourist: 02 43 49 46 46.

The Lude

To constructs at first as a medieval castle, Chateau of the Lude is one of the more goods examples of early Renaissance chateaux in France.
There is a beautiful long terrace on the facade south doing facing that neglects the gardens and the vast wooded parks this lengthening to the banks of the small river of Dormouse.
The original fortress was constructed between the tenth and 11st centuries, to defend Anjou of the invaders.
Wealth and the style variety that characterize the chateau are resounded in the decoration and the internal furnishings.
In the hands of the same family for the last one 250 years, Lude belongs to the louis-jean of Account and Comtesse of Nicolay, that continued his restoration and his decoration.

Chateaux found in the French Department (the county) of loire-atlantique

Provide

The Castle of the Dukes of Brittany (Chateau ds Dukes of Brittany) is a massive strengthened chateau that used the center of the historic province of Brittany until 1941, when the regions and the departments were restructured. The it was the residence of the Dukes of Brittany of the 13rd one to the 16th centuries, became then the residence of the French monarchy.
Enumedred as a monument historic by the French Ministry of Culture since 1862, the recently restored chateau also lodges now the Museum of History of Provide.
The castle and the museum offer a modern vision while presenting the passed, the present, and the city future.
A walk on the strengthened walls furnishes excellent views of the castle, its courses, and city.
The nightlight, that won the Price of Creator of Light of the Cutting of Lumiville 2007, in a manner spectacular poster architectural complexity.

Goulaine

Chateau Goulaine was in the Marquis of the family of Goulaine for more than 1000 years.
A fortress in the Means Acts, Goulaine was rebuilt completely during the period of Renaissance in the style of the big houses of the valley of Loire.
Although the exterior one seems of a harsh Breton castle, the interior is an earth of butterflies and of small cakes.
The chateau has a remarkable collection of antiquities, and the farm of butterfly of Tropical House has butterflies freely twitching April to November.
The chateau has also a collection of memories, including the posters of the business of bakery of Bed.
The castle is currently the house of Robert of writer of Goulaine, that will dedicate fortunately its books for you.

Chateau found in the French Department (the county) of Vendee:

Newfoundland

Newfoundland Chateau is a treasure of a castle with the architecture and the magnificent wooded park.
An essential example of the elegance of time of Renaissance, in are cut fireplaces in rock, elaborate ceilings, the antiquities, and the pictures. Constructs on a hill in Fontenay-le-Comte in 1580, Newfoundland was occupied as a residence since.

Chateau found in the French Department (the county) of Mayenne:

Ste Suzanne

To keep it Chateau of Holy suzanne and the 14th and 15th walls of century changed little on the centuries.
Regulate in this Small City of Character with the streets of pave and of medieval buildings, the castle has a wall walk with the fabulous views on the landscape of surrounding Coevrons.