Built in 1536, Villandry is the most recent great renaissance Loire valley castle. Francis I's finance minister Jean le Breton destroyed a former 12th century…
Joachim Carvallo, a scientist from Spain who worked with Prof. Richet (Nobel prize for medicine, 1913) bought the castle in 1906. Carvallo brought back the…
The renaissance courtyard with arched galleries, mullioned windows, decorated pilasters, sculpted dormer windows.