Villandry entdecken

The Château de Villandry, 15 km west of Tours, is a Renaissance château built in the 16th century for Jean Le Breton, a minister of Francis I, around an older keep. From 1906 Joachim Carvallo recreated its gardens on several terraces from Renaissance designs: an ornamental kitchen garden of vegetables in box-edged beds, ornamental flower gardens and a water garden.

The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau stands on an island in the Indre, south-west of Tours. It was built from 1518 to 1527 for Gilles Berthelot, a financier of Francis I, mixing French building traditions with Italian Renaissance decoration. Reworked in the 19th century by the marquis de Biencourt, it was bought by the State in 1905.