Group tour of the castles of the Loire

    Along one of the most beautiful French rivers - the Loire Valley, there are the locks of extraordinary beauty as Honor guard. They are for the most part the same built on the shores of the great river or rebuilt in the period when the lived the French kings in the XV-XVI cc.  - in the French Renaissance.

    François Villon and Oscar Wilde, Stendal and Jules, Charles Perreault,Victor Hugo and Georges Sand and other  had found inspiration here.

    Chambord (Сhâteau de Chambord) (without the internal visit) - one of the castles of the Loire Valley, which is the most beautiful of the Renaissance castles. Even at a distance you can note as the entire top part of the lock in the typical Italian style, lucarnes, richly carved fire mantles tubes, pinnacles, Litovsky Market burned down, ornamented columns, shot up in the sky their style and breathtaking decorations from the roofing slate patterned , remembering the trim from the Italian marble color stones.

    A favorite place to stay of the French kings was the excellent palace by Louis XIV , which in particular , under the patronage of the Moliere, and wrote his first comédies-ballets - "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" together from the "Le bourgeois gentilhomme".

    In a classic style castle architecture of the first model is considered to be the lock XVII century - Cheverny (Сhâteau de Cheverny). It is simply impossible to ignore the extraordinary whiteness and striking the symmetry of the lock. In all its glory its architecture feel the imprint of the female taste and elegance that has been reflected in the subtlety and nobility of its external type and the decoration of the Interior. In the castle among the ancillary premises there is a room trophies,  which is very prominently for horn deer, which has counted more than 2000, as well as the magnificent kennel for dog’s hunting, which counted around hundreds. It was cause the owners of Cheverny had regularly made squabbling hunting visits (and live entertainment to this day), very valuable among nobles - large amateur hunting.

    Cheverny stores intact excellent furniture of the era of Louis XIII (castle had the good fortune proportion - remain in the hands of one of the family).

    The lock of the six women referred to the castle of Chenonceau (Château de Chenonceau) - the pearl of the Renaissance. You can feel women's taste in this glory architecture with unique elegance that has been reflected in the nobility of the Interior, the intricacies of its external view and finishing.

    The construction work had been completed in 1521.

    The castle was confiscated by Francois I in 1533 year. Desire of the king was motivated by this expropriation, according to some sources, in order to have an excellent praised  mansion and their hunting land. Sometimes Francis I accompanied, by a small circle of close people, came in Chenonceau with - second wife, his son Heinrich, his favorite Anne De Pisseleu, his son favorite Diana de Poitiers, Catherine Medici . Soon the castle of Chenonceau became the property of Diana de Poitiers contrary to all laws, запрещавшим exclusion of holdings, owned by the Crown.