French Castles
Posted by Administrator in About Provence. Cipro No Prescription Glucotrol For Sale Acomplia Generic Buy Topamax Online Synthroid Without Prescription Inderal No Prescription Nexium For Sale Prevacid Generic Buy Elimite Online Prevacid Without PrescriptionFortress in IXe century, it became in XIIe, after reinforcement of the work by the Counts of Provence, an impregnable place at the border of the Counties of Vintimille and Provence. The arcades and the 1st stage were added to the XVIIe century. 1598 to 1905, it was the residence of the LOMBARD, Marquis de Montauroux.
Recorded before the Middle Ages, Blois then became the centre of an important feudal power. On the site of the old castle, King Louis XII (1498-1515) and his wife, Anne of Brittany (1491-1514) embarked on the construction of a vast Renaissance palace. Behind its walls some of the most traumatic pages of French history were written.
Nested at the bottom of a populated park of immense cedars centenaires, the castle dominates the peaceful course of the Loire since a relatively high headland. Built essentially of 1469 to 1566, this harmonious and refined construction constitutes a significant link of transition between the medieval fortress and the palate rebirth.