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Domaine Sauvète
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
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
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
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
On the river bank of the Loire, a house built with the white traditional stones, tuffeau....
Chinon
Chinon lays along the river Vienne. Its old Castle used to be the place to be, People like the giant Garagantua, Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, and some kings, English or French went there at one time or an other. From the main dungeon, one sees...
Richelieu
Richelieu, the Red Eminence, was a bishop, a cardinal and a minister. He was also a someone with a lot of ideas, some good, some terrible. This is what you get when you have so much power in your hands. He was sure he knew what the ideal city shoul...
Azay le rideau
People call this a castle - Le château d'Azay le Rideau - I call it a jewel - Un bijou....
