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    Visit Château d'Annecy, France

    Visit Château d'Annecy, France

    The Château d'Annecy is a restored castle which dominates the old French town of Annecy in the Haute-Savoiedépartement. It was bought by the town, restored and transformed into a museum,le musée-château d'Annecy. The castle is listed as amonument historiqueby the French Ministry of Culture. The Tour de la Reine (Queen's Tower) is the oldest p...
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    See Château de Bagatelle, Paris, France

    See Château de Bagatelle, Paris, France

    The Château de Bagatelle is a small neoclassical château with several small formal French gardens, a rose garden, and an orangerie. It is set on 59 acres of gardens in French landscape style in the Bois de Boulogne, which is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The château is a glorified playground, actually amaison de plaisanceintended for b...
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    See Château de Blois, France

    See Château de Blois, France

    The Royal Château de Blois is located in the Loir-et-Cherdépartementin the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois. The residence of several French kings, it is also the place where Joan of Arc went in 1429 to be blessed by the Archbishop of Reims before departing with her army to drive the English from Orléans. Built in the mid...
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    Visit Château de Caen, France

    Visit Château de Caen, France

    The Château de Caen is a castle in the Norman town of Caen in the Calvados département (Basse-Normandie). It has been officially classed as aM onument historique since 1886. The castle was built c. 1060 by William the Conqueror, who successfully conquered England in 1066. His son Henry I then built the Saint Georges church, a keep (1123) and a large hall ...
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    Visit Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France (UNESCO site)

    Visit Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France (UNESCO site)

    The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by King François I. Chambord...
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    See Château de Chaumont, France

    See Château de Chaumont, France

    The Château de Chaumont (or Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire) is a castle in Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, France. The castle was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois. After Pierre d'Amboise rebelled against Louis XI, the king ordered the castle's destruction. Later in the 15th century Château de Chaumont was rebuilt by Charles I d'A...
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    Visit Château de Chenonceau, France

    Visit Château de Chenonceau, France

    The Château de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme....
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    See Château de Cheverny, France

    See Château de Cheverny, France

    The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in thedépartementof Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in France. The lands were purchased by Henri Hurault, comte de Cheverny, a lieutenant-general and military treasurer for Louis XI, whose descendent the marquis de Vibraye is the present owner. Lost to the Crown because of fraud to the State, it was donated...
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    Visit Château de Chillon, Switzerland

    Visit Château de Chillon, Switzerland

    The Château de Chillon (Chillon Castle) is located on the shore of Lake Léman in the commune of Veytaux, at the eastern end of the lake, 3 km from Montreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 100 independent buildings that were gradually connected to become the building as it stands now. The oldest parts of the castle have not been definitively dated, bu...
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    See Château de Langeais, France

    See Château de Langeais, France

    The Château de Langeais is a medieval castle, rebuilt as achâteau, in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley. Founded in 992 by Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou, the castle was soon attacked by Odo I, Count of Blois. After the unsuccessful attack, the now-ruined stone keep ...
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    Visit Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    Visit Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    The Château de Malmaison is a country house (or château) in the city of Rueil-Malmaison about 12 km (7 mi) from Paris. It was formerly the residence of Joséphine de Beauharnais, and with the Tuileries, was from 1800 to 1802 the headquarters of the French government. Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and...
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    Visit Château de Pierrefonds, Paris, France

    Visit Château de Pierrefonds, Paris, France

    The Château de Pierrefonds is a castle situated in thecommuneof Pierrefonds in the Oise département (Picardy) of France. It is on the southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, northeast of Paris, between Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne. The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military archite...
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    See Château de Saumur, France

    See Château de Saumur, France

    The Château de Saumur, originally built as a castle and later developed as achâteau, is located in the French town of Saumur, in the Maine-et-Loiredépartement. It was originally constructed in the 10th century by Theobald I, Count of Blois, as a fortified stronghold against Norman predations. It overlooks the confluence of the Loire and the Thouet. ...
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    Visit Château de Sceaux, France

    Visit Château de Sceaux, France

    The Château de Sceaux is a grand country house in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, not far from Paris, France. Located in a park laid out by André Le Nôtre, it houses the Musée de l’Île-de-France, a museum of local history. The former château was built for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, who purchased thedomai...
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    Visit Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France

    Visit Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France

    The Château des ducs de Bretagne (Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atlantiquedépartementof France; it served as the centre of the historical province of Brittany until its separation in 1941. It is located on the right bank of the Loire, which formerly fed its ditches. It was the residence of th...
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