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Château de Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher, France. The château belongs to the Hurault de Vibraye family and has been home to the same family for over six centuries. It was made even more famous by the cartoonist Hergé who was inspired by it to make...

Château de Beaugency, Loiret, France. Originally built during the medieval period, it was a seigneurial residence that first belonged to the Lords of Beaugency, then to the kings of France and the Dukes of Orléans until the French Revolution...

Built in the 15th century at Lémeré, near Chinon in France, the Château du Rivau's origins go back much further, however, as it was built on the foundations of a 13th-century fortified house. Part fortified castle, part pleasure residence...

Château du Lude, Le Lude, France. One of the most northerly of the Loire châteaux, the site was already occupied in the Middle Ages as a strategic point on the borders of Maine, Anjou and Touraine. Occupied by the English during the Hundred...

Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire. France. Built in the first decades of the 16th century.

Château de la Brède, near Bordeaux, France. The castle was famously the home of the French philosopher Montesquieu (1689-1757), who was Baron de la Brède from 1696.

Château of Amboise during the Renaissance, showing the castle as it was during the reign of Henry III of France (1574-1589), illustration by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Only the buildings shown in black can still be seen today.

Château d'Ussé, Rigny-Ussé, Indre-et-Loire, France. Built as a stronghold in the Middle Ages, it gradually evolved over the centuries and became a model of Renaissance architecture, before becoming a refined leisure residence in the 17th...

First built in the 10th century, the Château de Brissac became the home of René de Cossé, the first Lord of Brissac in 1502 and it is now the residence of the 14th Duke of Brissac. It is located in the new town of Brissac Loire Aubance in...

Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, France. First built in the 10th century CE, it was destroyed by Louis XI in 1465. The reconstruction started in 1469 and continued into the 16th century CE.