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  2. 2015-09-07-Chenonceaux, FR-Château de Chenonceau2015-09-07-Chenonceaux, FR-Château de Chenonceau
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Approaching the château under a sylvan canopy
Approaching the château
Approach to the entrance of Château de Chenonceau
Tom in the château's forecourt in front of the Marques Tower
The Marques Tower (To build the chateau in the 16th century, Thomas Bohier and his wife Katherine Briconnet demolished an old fortified castle and mill belonging to the Marques family and left standing only the keep, the Marques Tower, which they restored in the Renaissance style.)
Domes Gallery
The moat in front of the château
The Chancellerie
Château de Chenonceau
Detail-The Marques Tower
The Marques Tower
Georgia near the moat
The Marques Tower
Garden of Catherine de Médicis, a one time regent of France
The chateau's main door (Made of sculpted wood and painted, it bears, on the left, the arms of Thomas Bonhier and on the right, those of his wife Katherine Briconnet, the builders of Chenonceau.)
Motif over the fireplace of the Guard's Room-The arms of the chateau's builder, Thomas Bohier
The Guard's Room (In this room were the men-at-arms charged with protecting the royal family. Hanging on the walls is a series of 16th century Flanders tapestries.)
The deeply coffered ceiling of the Guards Room
The château's chapel (The stained glass window's are 20th century made by master glassworker, Max Ingrand. The original stained glass was destroyed by bombs in 1944.)
The château's chapel
A sun spangled wall in the chapel
Diane de Poitier's bedroom (This was the bedroom of King Henry II's favorite lady, Diane de Poitiers, to whom he donated the chateau.)
Diane de Poitier's bedroom-Fireplace detail (The fireplace by Jean Goujon, French sculptor from the Fontainbleau School, is engraved with the initials of Henri II and Catherine de Medici)
View of Diane's garden across the moat
View of the Chancellerie, slighty warped as seen through the old glass
Translation: "Here 2,245 wounded were cared for during the war 1914-1918" (Part of Château de Chenonceau served as a field hospital during World War I)
The gallery over the bridge
The Pantry with two intersecting rib vaults (This is the largest fireplace in the chateau. To the right of it is the bread oven)
A Boar's Head surveys the pantry
Cooking Hearth in the dining room used by chateau staff
The larder, where produce was stored
Detail-Louis XIV Drawing Room (On the Renaissance fireplace, the Salamander and the Stoat bring back the memory of King Francois I and Queen Claude)
The Hall (The hall is covered with a series of rib vaults where the keys, detatched from one another, form a broken line.)
The Marques Tower
Diane de Poitier's garden fringed by the moat
Diane's garden
Wood carving of Christ in the Medici Gallery
Cellar and Domes Gallery
Château de Chenonceau from Diane's garden
Château de Chenonceau from Diane's garden
The Marques Tower from Diane's Garden (The medieval keep is the last vestige of the previous château, located in what is now the forecourt, still surrounded by moats)
The Domes Gallery and Chancellerie from Diane's Garden
Château de Chenonceau from Diane's garden
The Château de Chenonceau, on the Cher River.
Outside of the gallery spanning the Cher River
View from the northeast showing the chapel and the library (right)
The Chancellerie (The Chancellerie, once the house of Catherine de Medici's estate steward, looks out over Diane's garden.)
Sixteenth Century Farm (On the grounds of the estate is a superb group of 16th century farm buildings.)
Sixteenth Century Farm-The water tower
Sixteenth Century Farm-Farmer's residence
Sixteenth Century Farm-Farmer's residence
A vintage Bentley in the Carriage Gallery
Commemorating the chateau's roll as a military hospital during the Great War
Part of the chateau was used as a militay hospital during WW I (During World War I Gaston Menier, the chateau's owner at the time, set up the gallery to be used as a hospital ward During the Second War the château was bombed by the Germans in June 1940. It was also a means of escaping from the Nazi occupied zone on one side of the River Cher to the "free" zone on the opposite bank. Occupied by the Germans, the château was bombed by the Allies on 7 June 1944, when the chapel was hit and its windows destroyed.[)
The Gardens and farm of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The Gardens of Château de Chenonceau
The chateau's "Donkey Park" which includes several different breeds of Donkeys
The chateau's "Donkey Park" which includes several different breeds of Donkeys

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