Recent Posts Tagged With 'france'

• Domaine Sauvète

  Posted on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 08:43 in architecture, france, loire valley

  Domaine Sauvète produces delicious organic wine in Monthou sur Cher. 10 hectares of the wineyard are harvests by hand. The vintner and his familly live in a small house looking over the hills....

• Château d'Ussé

  Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 08:37 in france, castle, château, loire valley

  The Château d'Ussé is a real castle, built in the XVth century, like the one you see in movies, except, that it's real. So real that it inspired Charles Perault when he wrote his novel "the sleeping beauty"....

• Bridge of Langeais

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 08:45 in architecture, france, bridge, loire valley, loirevalley

  This bridge was built in 1849. With its towers and medieval architecture, it tries as much as possible to look like the Château de Langeais. Through times, It's been bombed and mined but it is still standing there, proud and happy, with its wet feet...

• Château de Langeais

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 11:45 in france, castle, château, loire valley, loirevalley

  Château de Langeais was built in the second half of the 15th century by Louis XI. One half of it was a fortress, built to stand any war, which it did with success, the other half was more for lounging and realaxing with big fire place and giant LCD ...

• House in Tours

  Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 05:45 in architecture, france, loire valley, loirevalley

  On the river bank of the Loire, a house built with the white traditional stones, tuffeau....