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| Tours - Cathedrale St. Gatien |
| Saint Gatien's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral church of the Tours diocese and the metropolitan cathedral of the Tours ecclesiastic province, in Indre-et-Loire, France. Saint-Gatien's Cathedral was built between 1170 and 1547. |
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| Tours - Cathedrale St. Gatien |
| Inside the cathedral |
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| Wisteria |
| Wisteria tree with the bright purple flowers |
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| Chambord Chateau |
https://www.chambord.org/en/
The Chateau de Chambord hunting lodge is located ten miles east of Blois, and four kilometers from the Loire, in countryside surrounded by woods.
The chateau has about 400 rooms, more than 80 staircases, 365 fireplaces resembling a small town, and an exceptional number of towers, high ceilings, pointed domes graceful pinnacles.
Interesting to note, you can purchase the Chambord Liquor in town in plain glass bottles at a reasonable price compared to the expensive exported round-crown bottles you by in the States. |
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| Chambord Chateau - Leonardo Da Vinci double helix stairs |
| Leonardo Da Vinci designed the double helix spiral staircase. The story goes that the king's concubines could descend on one side while the queen was ascending on the other, each spiraling around and neither would see the other. |
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| Cheverny |
| http://www.chateau-cheverny.fr/en/ |
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| Cheverny - The hunting hounds |
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| Fougeres Sur Bievre |
http://www.fougeres-sur-bievre.fr/en
This is actually a castle, differing in construction from the regions chateaus. It was designed and built by ship builders, hence the design of the room resembles the hull of a boat in it's construction. |
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| Amboise |
| On our tour we did not get to stop at Amboise so only got some drive-by photos. |
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