Amboise - Parc du Château de Chenonceau

Catching up with posting - been having too much fun exploring

On Thursday, along with D&D, we visited Parc du Chateau de Chenonceau which was a 30 min bus ride away. Impressive Chateau over the Le Cher river. We were impressed with the Chateau, not much with the state of water 😠 People were using punt boats to paddle around, I would not have gone near that water.
In the first world war the Chateau was used as a military hospital, the stables served as a display room. There was a separate building which served as the florists room that makes up arrangements for each day in the Chateau. The flowers are picked from the gardens. I enjoyed the Apothecary and the kitchens in the Chateau. The vegetable garden was a dream, I did take note of the structure that you could grow pumpkins on.

History of the Chateau: In 1535 King Francis 1 incorporated it into the Crown Estate as part of a debt settlement. Later, King Henry ll decided to offer it to not to the Queen, but to his Favourite, Diane de Poitiers, to dispose of as her own and true patrimony. This artificial exit of Chenonceau from Crown Lands meant that it was saved, two centuries later, from the French Revolution.
We decided that we had probably had our fill of Chateau’s after this visit 😂Read more