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Château-Gaillard (Amboise)

France · 15th century

Founded
c. 1495
Heritage status
monument historique inscrit
Location
Amboise
Coordinates
47.41043°, 0.99934°
Links
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Château-Gaillard (Amboise) in France
Photo: Sorel5 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The royal estate of Château-Gaillard, commissioned by Charles VIII on his return from the first Italian War, is located in Amboise in the Loire Valley. Comprising notably a royal residence counted among the châteaux of the Loire, it extends at the foot of the southern flank of the Châteliers spur, in the immediate vicinity of the Clos-Lucé.

The Château-Gaillard estate was a "laboratory" of the French Renaissance: the first acclimatisation garden in France, notably with the creation of the first French royal orangery; the first French Renaissance garden, created by Dom Pacello da Mercogliano, with the first axial landscape perspective and the first "French-style" parterres; and the first French transposition of the Italian Renaissance architecture embodied by the Medici villas in Florence.

The royal estate of Château-Gaillard was listed as a historic monument in 1963 for its chapel and the gardens in front of the château. After five years of restoration, the estate was opened to the public in 2014. The whole Château-Gaillard estate was protected as a historic monument in 2023.

Machine-translated from “Château-Gaillard (Amboise)” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château-Gaillard (Amboise) ranks #5,912 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #514 of the 954 mapped in France. Founded c. 1495, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 596 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,139 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tours, 23 km away. It is one of the 87 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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