The Château de Chambord is unsettling to look at, a folly so grand it’s hard to take in, like something seen in a fever. I sit at the window of my room in the Relais de Chambord, a new hotel beside ...

Visitors to Chambord in France’s Loire Valley are restricted to one-way traffic on the famous double helix stairway at the centre of the grandiose castle that reopened on Friday after 10 weeks under ...

The nocturnal noises coming from the French forest make it sound like there’s a grand prix for combine harvesters going on in there. The bizarre braying sound of stags in the mating season can come as ...

This summer the Loire Valley's iconic castle of Chambord celebrates the renaissance of its 18th-century gardens with a contemporary art show marking the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou museum ...

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Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of historians. Why did King Francis I (1494-1547), who ...

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has been attacked by MPs for celebrating his 40th birthday at an iconic chateau, who found it “strange” and “ridiculous”. Macron, who turns 40 on Thursday, is spending ...