Amboise Castle

The home of Francis I and the vast majority of the French eminence in the sixteenth century is a 20-minute auto or prepare ride toward the east. The château had its prime in the renaissance time frame after Charles VIII diverted it from a post into the Loire valley's first Italian-style royal residence in the late-1400s.

In 1516 Francis I welcomed Leonardo da Vinci to live and work in Amboise, and the polymath's home at Clos Lucé was really associated with the Château d'Amboise by underground ways that you can find today by earlier course of action. Da Vinci kicked the bucket here in 1519 and is covered at the Chapel of Saint-Hubert at the Château. The greenhouses are decorated with circular topiaries and the perspectives from this goad over the Loire are divine.