Loire, France: Château de Chambord
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Château de Chambord, France (Loir-et-Cher), June 2017.
Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley. Construction started in 1519 and ended in 1547. It is located 170 km south of Paris, between Orléans and Tours, near Blois.
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Château de Chambord in Chambord, France
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Chambord Château, Loire, France
Chambord is the finest of all the châteaux in the Loire, France, and the largest. The château to end all châteaux, a masterpiece, perhaps the greatest architectural triumph the French Renaissance ever created. You will definitely find it is worth going inside, although a majority of visitors don’t do that, they just take a look at it from the outside, take a picture, maybe they’re on a bus tour or driving and they move on, but we’ll show you what they are missing.
This is a dream place to visit, 156 meters long, 117 wide and 56 meters tall with 426 rooms, 77 staircases, 282 fireplaces, more than 800 sculpted columns and with massive towers at each corner. It's second in size only to the Château of Versailles, making this one of the great national monuments of the country.
The first thing you'll see inside is one of the main architectural highlights, a spectacular double spiral staircase – it's the centerpiece of the château. It forms a double helix with two intertwined flights of steps ascending three floors, without ever meeting.
French castle of Chambord celebrates five eventful centuries
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This week, we're in the Loire Valley, in the grounds of the region's most recognisable castles: Chambord, where construction began five centuries ago. This Renaissance masterpiece was conceived as a hunting lodge for King Francis I, who used it as a potent example of his power and prestige. Never to be completed, the edifice was altered repeatedly during its construction, then later looted and abandoned, before being restored to become the tourist magnet it is today. We tell you more.
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Découvrez le château de Chambord
A l'occasion du 500e anniversaire de la Renaissance, France 3 Centre-Val de Loire vous propose des pages spéciales depuis les plus grands châteaux qui ont marqué cette période de l'histoire.
Aujoud'hui, découvrez l'un des plus célèbres châteaux de France, Architectes, artistes, viticulteurs sont à l'oeuvre pour souligner encore davantage la magie du lieu.
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Château de Chambord, France (Loir-et-Cher), June 2017.
Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley. Construction started in 1519 and ended in 1547. It is located 170 km south of Paris, between Orléans and Tours, near Blois.
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Château de Chambord / L'énigme de François 1er
Chambord, l'énigme de François 1er est un documentaire diffusé dans la série Palais d'Europe sur France 5.
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The Castle of Chambord, France
The most beautiful castle you can think of is this enormous building in de middle of France. Of special interest are the many chimney's for the 365 fire places inside this castle where once King Louis XIV resided during hunting seasons.
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Chateaux de la Loire: Chambord (France)
A stroll through the castle of Chambord. inside and outside.
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France's iconic Chateau de Chambord gets a makeover
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Chambord is perhaps the most iconic of the castles in the Loire valley, thanks to its renaissance turrets and sweeping grounds. The castle and gardens have had a full overhaul, with experts recreating its 18th century features. FRANCE 24's reporters went to check it out.
We also get a glimpse of one of the gems hidden behind Versailles’ gilded gates: the Royal Opera is one of the largest stages in France and the perfect platform for a season of ballet and music.
Meanwhile, Guerlain celebrates the women behind the lens, with an exhibition focusing on female photographers and their subjects.
And one artist's creative constructions constitute his own castle, of sorts, as Olivier Grossetête takes over a Parisian park with his monumental sculptures, inviting visitors to step right inside.
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The Castle of Chambord, France
The Castle of Chambord is a World Heritage Site. And now we know why. Check it out!
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1519. A palace rises up out of the swampy lowlands of the Sologne region, on the edge of a forest filled with wild boar. François I, the young king who had garnered glory in the Battle of Marignan, ordered its construction. The château de Chambord was not intended to be a permanent residence; François I would in fact spend only a few weeks here, leaving it empty of furniture and people after his visits. It was an architectural jewel that the king liked to show to visiting crowned heads and ambassadors as a symbol of his power. Although the château was not completed under François I, it is one of the few buildings of that age that has survived without major modifications to its original design.
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Château de Chambord, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France, Europe
The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by King François I. Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley; it was built to serve as a hunting lodge for François I, who maintained his royal residences at the châteaux of Blois and Amboise. The original design of the Château de Chambord is attributed, though with some doubt, to Domenico da Cortona; Leonardo da Vinci may also have been involved. Chambord was altered considerably during the twenty-eight years of its construction (1519--1547), during which it was overseen on-site by Pierre Nepveu. With the château nearing completion, François showed off his enormous symbol of wealth and power by hosting his old archrival, Emperor Charles V, at Chambord. In 1792, in the wake of the French Revolution, some of the furnishings were sold and timber removed. For a time the building was left abandoned, though in the 19th century some attempts were made at restoration. During the Second World War, art works from the collections of the Louvre and the Château de Compiègne were moved to the Château de Chambord. The château is now open to the public, receiving 700,000 visitors in 2007. Châteaux in the 16th-century departed from castle architecture; while they were off-shoots of castles, with features commonly associated with them, they did not have serious defences. Extensive gardens and water features, such as a moat, were common amongst châteaux from this period. Chambord is no exception to this pattern. The layout is reminiscent of a typical castle with a keep, corner towers, and defended by a moat. Built in Renaissance style, the internal layout is an early example of the French and Italian style of grouping rooms into self-contained suites, a departure from the medieval style of corridor rooms. The massive château is composed of a central keep with four immense bastion towers at the corners. The keep also forms part of the front wall of a larger compound with two more large towers. Bases for a possible further two towers are found at the rear, but these were never developed, and remain the same height as the wall. The château features 440 rooms, 282 fireplaces, and 84 staircases. Four rectangular vaulted hallways on each floor form a cross-shape. The château was never intended to provide any form of defense from enemies; consequently the walls, towers and partial moat are purely decorative, and even at the time were an anachronism. Some elements of the architecture open windows, loggia, and a vast outdoor area at the top borrowed from the Italian Renaissance architecture are less practical in cold and damp northern France. The roofscape of Chambord contrasts with the masses of its masonry and has often been compared with the skyline of a town: it shows eleven kinds of towers and three types of chimneys, without symmetry, framed at the corners by the massive towers. The design parallels are north Italian and Leonardesque. Writer Henry James remarked the towers, cupolas, the gables, the lanterns, the chimneys, look more like the spires of a city than the salient points of a single building. One of the architectural highlights is the spectacular double helix open staircase that is the centerpiece of the château. The two helices ascend the three floors without ever meeting, illuminated from above by a sort of light house at the highest point of the château. There are suggestions that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the staircase, but this has not been confirmed. Writer John Evelyn said of the staircase it is devised with four (sic) entries or ascents, which cross one another, so that though four persons meet, they never come in sight, but by small loopholes, till they land. It consists of 274 steps (as I remember), and is an extraordinary work, but of far greater expense than use or beauty.
The château also features 128 meters of façade, more than 800 sculpted columns and an elaborately decorated roof. When François I commissioned the construction of Chambord, he wanted it to look like the skyline of Constantinople. The château is surrounded by a 52.5‑km² (13,000‑acre) wooded park and game reserve maintained with red deer, enclosed by a 31‑kilometer (20‑mile) wall. The king's plan to divert the Loire to surround the château came about only in a novel; Amadis of Gaul, which François had translated. In the novel the château is referred to as the Palace of Firm Isle. Chambord's towers are atypical of French contemporary design in that they lack turrets and spires. In the opinion of author Tanaka, who suggests Leonardo da Vinci influenced the château's design, they are closer in design to minarets of 15th-century Milan.
Château de Chambord
The Château de Chambord in Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.
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Commissioned by King Francis I and imagined by the great Leonardo da Vinci, the #Chateau de #Chambord is the largest and most majestic castle of the Loire. It is a symbol of the French Renaissance and of the power of a passionate ruler who revered the arts.
It was on his victorious return from the Battle of Marignan in 1515 that Francis I decided to build Chambord. It wasn’t just to be a residence, but a monumental symbol of his power inscribed in stone. Despite this, he spent only 50 days there. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981, the castle has been home to many illustrious guests over the centuries. It has hosted memorable celebrations and hunting parties, including those of Louis XIV who completed the work of constructing the #castle.
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The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture that blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Italian structures
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