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It consists of 1,050 acres (4.2 km 2) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania in the Brandywine Creek Valley and is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States. The property that is now Longwood Gardens was originally purchased from William Penn in 1700 by a fellow Quaker named George Peirce.
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Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley; it was built to serve as a hunting lodge for Francis I, who maintained his royal residences at the Château de Blois and Amboise. The original design of the château is attributed to the Tuscan architect Domenico da Cortona ; Leonardo da Vinci may have also influenced the design.
The château has a neo-Gothic silhouette with Renaissance-style façades, bays, roofs and chimneys inspired by the châteaux of the Loire Valley, particularly for the four corner towers of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau. The château has exceptionally thick thirteen meter walls. There is a chapel and a theatre inside.
Sunset on the Loire River from the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art. The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), [1] is a valley located in the middle stretch of the Loire river in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.
Château de Beauregard, viewed from the front. The Château de Beauregard is a Renaissance château in the Loire Valley in France.It is located on the territory of the commune of Cellettes, a little south of the city of Blois and a few miles from other famous Loire châteaux such as Cheverny.