After leaving Normandy we took the train to the Loire Valley, which is full of chateaus, and spent the next couple of days in the town of Tours. We saw a few chateaus, and the first one we saw was Chateau de Chambord. This place was IMPRESSIVE! It was so huge and walking around in it, it is hard to even imagine someone building something this large.
I don't even know what to say about this place, other than it was huge and beautiful, and I'm so mad that this picture cannot do justice to the size of the place. The chateau has 440 rooms, 365 fireplaces, and 84 staircases.
A view of one of the 84 staircases inside this chateau.
Me in front of the queen's bed
Aaron on one of the walkways that wraps around part of the chateau.
Me and one of the views from one of the verandas at the chateau.
This chateau was also used during WWII to hide some of the artwork from the Louvre from those crazy Nazis who were trying to steal all of the art in Europe.
One of the other Chateaus we saw was Chateau de Cheverny. This place was very small considering the size of the other chateaus, but one cool thing about it is that it is still owned and occupied by descendants of the aristocratic family that had it built in 1624. Of course, since it is still occupied, we only got to see a very small part of the chateau.
One of the chateaus that I really wanted to see we didn't get to see as it was not open for tourists during this time of the year, was a chateau that Walt Disney used for his inspiration in creating the castle for Sleeping Beauty.
I don't even know what to say about this place, other than it was huge and beautiful, and I'm so mad that this picture cannot do justice to the size of the place. The chateau has 440 rooms, 365 fireplaces, and 84 staircases.
A view of one of the 84 staircases inside this chateau.
Me in front of the queen's bed
Aaron on one of the walkways that wraps around part of the chateau.
Me and one of the views from one of the verandas at the chateau.This chateau was also used during WWII to hide some of the artwork from the Louvre from those crazy Nazis who were trying to steal all of the art in Europe.
One of the other Chateaus we saw was Chateau de Cheverny. This place was very small considering the size of the other chateaus, but one cool thing about it is that it is still owned and occupied by descendants of the aristocratic family that had it built in 1624. Of course, since it is still occupied, we only got to see a very small part of the chateau.
One of the chateaus that I really wanted to see we didn't get to see as it was not open for tourists during this time of the year, was a chateau that Walt Disney used for his inspiration in creating the castle for Sleeping Beauty.
1 comment:
Amazing! That chateu is beautiful! I can't even fathom a house of that magnitude. The queen's bed looks just they do in movies and story books.
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