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Today, Chambord is a major tourist attraction, and in 2007 around 700,000 people visited the château. [23] After unusually heavy rainfall, Chambord was closed to the public from 1 to 6 June 2016. The River Cosson, a tributary of the Loire, flooded its banks and the château's moat. Drone photography documented some of the peak flooding. [28]
“The Chateau Diaries,” the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit, has made a star of Stephanie Jarvis and her friends and family. Find out how they’ve lived in a French chateau during the pandemic.
Chambord (/ ʃ ɒ̃ ˈ b ɔː r /, US also / ʃ æ m ˈ b ɔː r d /, [citation needed] French: [ʃɑ̃bɔʁ]) is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, region of Centre-Val de Loire. [3] It is best known for its Château de Chambord , part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Today, the remaining privately owned châteaux serve as homes and some of them open their doors to tourists, while others operate as hotels or bed-and-breakfasts. Many others have been taken over by local governments, and the grandest, like those at Chambord , are owned and operated by the national government and are major tourist sites ...
The Strawbridge family purchased the 19th century château for £280,000 in 2015
The porch of the main facade was also a striking innovation; it was the first correct use in France of the three classical orders, one above the other. Only a few of the original buildings remain. The central building was later demolished, but the porch can be seen today in the courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A third innovative ...
Château de Chambord, a French château built in the 16th century; Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, the French commune where the château is located; Chambord, Eure, a commune in the Eure département of France; Chambord, Quebec, in Canada; Henri, Count of Chambord, a pretender to the French crown from the House of Bourbon; Simca Vedette Chambord, a ...
The village of 'Nohan' was mentioned in French chronicles as early as 1228. A fortified manor house stood on the site and was reconstructed between 1450 and 1452. Two of the original towers are part of the farm of the present chateau. [4] In 1767, the land and house were purchased by Pierre Pearron, who reconstructed the manor in its present form.