
Villandry Castle is an intimate marriage of architecture and gardens, nestled 15 kilometers west of Tours in France's Indre-et-Loire department, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. The last great palace raised along the Loire in the 16th century, Villandry brings a final flourish to French First Renaissance aspirations while presaging the achievements of Ancy-le-Franc (Bourgogne) and Écouen (Île-de-France). Today's gardens owe their existence to meticulous restoration undertaken from 1906 by Dr. J
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