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Château d'Ussé. Coordinates: 47°14′59″N 0°17′28″E. View of the Château's towers. Ussé is a castle in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France. The stronghold at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley was first fortified in the eleventh century by the Norman seigneur of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur, who surrounded ...
Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire. Château de Chenonceau. Château de Gien. Château de Meillant. Château de Sully-sur-Loire. Château d'Ussé. Château de Valençay. Château de Villandry. This page lists the châteaux of the French Centre-Val de Loire region.
Europe and North America. The châteaux of the Loire Valley (French: châteaux de la Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the river Loire in France. They illustrate Renaissance ideals of design in France.
INSEE /Postal code. 37197 /37420. Elevation. 35–109 m (115–358 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Rigny-Ussé (French pronunciation: [ʁiɲi yse]) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
INSEE /Postal code. 70446 /70100. Elevation. 189–246 m (620–807 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Rigny ( French pronunciation: [ʁiɲi]) is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France .
The exterior design of the château d'Azay-le-Rideau's main building (as well as its surrounding area, for the most part) was used by Konami video game developing company as the prime inspiration and a direct structural base of the "Villa" location in the video games Castlevania 64 (appears during "Stage 03" of the game) and Castlevania: Legacy ...
Tuffeau stone. Part of the enciente wall at the Château de Loches, showing tuffeau blocks of various ages and in various stages of decay. Tuffeau stone — in French, simply tuffeau or tufeau — is a local limestone of the Loire Valley of France. It is characterized as a chalky or sandy, fine-grained limestone, white to yellowish-cream in ...
Website. Official website of the Clos Lucé. The Château du Clos Lucé (French pronunciation: [ʃato dy klo lyse]; or simply Clos Lucé), formerly called Manoir du Cloux, is a large château located in the center of Amboise, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is located in the natural Val de ...