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    Posted on March 19th, 2009

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    Chateau Amboise

    Chateau 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 [...]

  • France, Gardens of Europe

    Posted on March 17th, 2009

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    Chateau de Chantilly

    Chateau de Chantilly

    Few gardens make such spectacular use of tranquil water as Chantilly. A castle was built on a rock in a marshy forest, with the lake serving as a moat. A renaissance garden was made (c 1550) and transformed into the present high baroque garden by Andre le Notre in 1663. Water, aggrandised by design, remains [...]