Château de Chambord has 440 rooms and a fireplace for every day of the year. Courtesy of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door With its huge scale and prickly silhouette, Château de Chambord is ...

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 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 ...

Francois I’s gargantuan hunting lodge, the Château de Chambord, commenced in 1519, was conceived in the visionary sprit of the castles depicted in the celebrated pages of the Très Riches Heures du Duc ...

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 ...

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 ...