A massive fortress with 17 striped towers of dark schist and white stone, built by Saint Louis in the 13th century. It holds the Apocalypse Tapestry, the largest medieval tapestry in the world, made in the 1370s and over 100 metres long, displayed in a long dark gallery.
Walk the ramparts and the gardens planted in the dry moat.
A Renaissance château in the countryside of Poitou with a long gallery painted with scenes of the Trojan War, and a collection of contemporary art, C…
One of the most graceful Renaissance châteaux of the Loire Valley, built in the 1520s on an island in the River Indre, so that it seems to float on t…
One of the most beautiful châteaux in France, built across the River Cher on a series of arches, with its long gallery reflected in the water.
A grand red-brick château surrounded by a moat in the Normandy bocage, built and changed between the 14th and 17th centuries and home to the same fam…
The 'Green Venice': a maze of canals shaded by poplars and ash trees in the marshes west of Niort, best explored by flat-bottomed boat or canoe.
The simple fisherman's house by the sea in the Vendée where Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the First World War, spent his last year…
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