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Now there is somewhere in France an area where there are 20 castles within a few kilometers. So it’s quite overwhelming if you want to see them all. So I just suggest you just pick a few. And I’ve decided to go only for uh free castles and uh three castles one each day. So after a long drive the first day I just wanted to stretch my legs in gardens. I didn’t feel really like you know concentrating on history and visiting the inside. So I just visited the gardens but they are quite spectacular. So, Villainry is perfect for that. Gardens are absolutely amazing. The the entrance was a bit mysterious, although that might have taken the wrong turn, but uh when you get upstairs, it’s like wow. It’s really incredible. There’s there’s 100,000 plants. There’s thousands of trees. And here, if you look here, the front row gardens represent uh each uh different type of loaf. Um, but something to know, they are meant to be enjoyed from above, you know, because I thought, oh, I’m just going to walk through them later on. But you cannot, they are supposed to be looked at from above and you cannot actually walk through them. The best part of these gardens are the sidewalks that you can do uh especially with this beautiful autumn weather that was just so nice. So there there is a path that is close to the gardens and um you walk between those trees and then you you look right and you see the these amazing gardens. But there is another path that is also quite exciting. You look on the left and you have this autumn forest and then you look on the right and you have the castle and the gardens. And this something really this is really the highlight one of the highlight I should say of my three days here. Once you go downstairs, you you obviously miss that perspective. So, it’s different uh different experience. The maze it itself was not uh that amazing. Forgive the pun, but um I think it must be better in spring that they didn’t have much leaves then. Well, that is me trying to be the the fancy travel vlogger that I’m not. So, I’m giving you here some incredible insight about a castle I know absolutely nothing about. So, I I thought I would spare you the the rambling. Now, this is where I stayed. I think if if they showed that on the on the booking.com, uh I don’t think I would have stayed there, but inside is very well done. Now, next next castle. I’ I’ve really been looking forward to to to this one. It all starts uh with an autumn drive um as usual. And this is more than a castle. This is a park. Once again, you know, autumn it was all over the place, was everywhere here. And you you just walk through this path and then you turn right and you see, wow. So, this is really breathtaking. You know, there’s 200 rooms and they are, you know, it took more than 20 years to build and and the built by Francis the first and he only stayed a few nights. Can you believe? I think he he stayed only 72 nights. So the idea was for his wife to enjoy all the terraces, hence all the the variety that there is in the the build when you get close. Uh so for this wife to enjoy the terases while he was hunting. So the gardens of course after vander any garden would seem a bit dull. So even this one and I think next time I’ll see villain last for the gardens but um it was still very interesting. So the stairs inside were were attributed to Leonard Leonard Vveni. Um but there’s a lot of variety inside but uh for me it’s it’s from the outside that I enjoyed it the um the most. Now the last castle on the last day was the most elegant in my view. So as usual another autumn entrance and then uh it’s very interesting castle. Um the inside is actually well furnished. It’s actually pleasant to be inside. I think I thought Chambo was just empty rooms, but this one was very interesting. So this castle is closely related to to several women. The the it’s a woman that designed it. Then Henry the second gave it to his mistress Diane the poet here. So that’s for the guys who saw the the serpent queen series. You might remember that. So he gave her this um this castle. And then when Henry II died, Katherine the Medisi, the the wife uh of Henry II that actually he married when she was 14. Uh she kicked her out. But don’t feel too sorry for her because she she ended up living in a show castle instead. That is actually quite quite amazing as well. So what’s interesting with this castle, it was built in three parts more or less. So there first it was a um a castle, a very squishyish uh castle and then uh Dian de Poe uh she wanted to be able to go to the other bank I think for a veggie patch. So imagine building a bridge like this just to be able to go and pick up your your tomatoes and and then when she left Katherine the Medisi just put another structure on top of the bridge. So it became this amazing uh garden that looks so like almost floating on the on the on the river here. It’s quite amazing. So the the gardens here after villandry once again uh they were quite good but I don’t want to repeat myself too much but what you always enjoy to this is the attention to detail. Uh you see where your entrance feed goes into which is nice but um so here you go. So this was actually a very nice touch to finish on this on this uh castle which in my view is the most refined of all the castles. So here you go. Three days for castles. Um my take on all this is the scenery make those more spectacular. You know the surrounding of all these castles and what I really like is the the fact that it’s you know man made that is surrounded with nature. It’s like they would they work together like there is synchronicity between the two uh that make the world uh the world thing quite amazing to see.
I viisted 3 french castles in 3 days, including Chenonceau, Chambord and the glorious Villandry.
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Nice!