château de blois Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/chateau-de-blois Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Chateau de Chambord CASTLE LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE http://toursmaps.com/chateau-de-chambord-castle-loire-valley-france.html http://toursmaps.com/chateau-de-chambord-castle-loire-valley-france.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:59:34 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221146 DOMENICO DA CORTONA The most famous of the Loire chateaus, Chambord was commissioned by King Francois I as a base for hunting and entertaining. Its location was conveniently near the home of one of the king’s last mistresses, the Comtesse de Thoury. Chambord took almost 30 years to build, and the structure that emerged defined a new French Renaissance style, influenced mainly by fashionable Italian architecture but also partly by the earlier French castles of the Middle Ages. Although sources differ, the main architect of the castle seems to have been an Italian, Domenico da Cortona. Other architects may well

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