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The Castlemap atlas charts 23 castles, 29 palaces & châteaux and 6 ruins in the Loire Valley. They span from c. 850 to 1882.
The best known is Château de Chambord, #21 of 7,738 worldwide.
Country pages: France.
Tours · Orléans · Blois · Angers · Le Mans
See them on the map →Palace & château · 16th century · #21 worldwide · #3 in France
The Château de Chambord (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d ʃɑ̃bɔʁ]) in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in…
Palace & château · 15th century · #56 worldwide · #7 in France
The Château de Chenonceau is a French château spanning the river Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire.
Palace & château · #103 worldwide · #15 in France
The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire department of the Loire Valley in France.
Palace & château · 13th century · #139 worldwide · #19 in France
The Royal Château of Blois is a château located in the city center of Blois, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loire Valley, France.
Palace & château · 15th century · #241 worldwide · #28 in France
The Château du Clos Lucé, formerly called Manoir du Cloux, is a large château located in the center of Amboise, in the department of Indre-et-Loire,…
Palace & château · 14th century · #310 worldwide · #33 in France
The Château de Villandry is a grand country house located in Villandry, in the département of Indre-et-Loire, France.
Palace & château · 9th century · #318 worldwide · #35 in France
The Château d'Angers is a castle in the city of Angers in the Loire Valley, in the département of Maine-et-Loire, in France.
Castle · 11th century · #339 worldwide · #38 in France
The Château de Chinon is a château located on the north bank of the river Vienne in Chinon, central France.
Palace & château · 16th century · #349 worldwide · #40 in France
The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau is located in the town of Azay-le-Rideau in the French département of Indre-et-Loire.
Palace & château · 17th century · #379 worldwide · #41 in France
The Château de Cheverny is located in Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher, France. It is one of the châteaux of the Loire Valley.
Castle · 10th century · #385 worldwide · #42 in France
The Château de Chaumont, officially Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, is a castle in Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Palace & château · 17th century · #43 in France
Ussé is a castle in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France. The stronghold at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley was first…
Palace & château · 10th century · #44 in France
The Château de Saumur, originally built as a castle and later developed as a château, is located in the French town of Saumur, in the Maine-et-Loire…
Palace & château · 16th century · #47 in France
Château de Valençay is a château in the commune of Valençay, in the Indre department of France.
Palace & château · 11th century · #56 in France
The Château de Brissac is a French château in the Brissac-Quincé area of the commune of Brissac Loire Aubance, located in the department of…
Castle · 11th century · #57 in France
The Château de Loches is a castle located in the département of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley in France; it was constructed in the 9th century.
Palace & château · 10th century · #62 in France
The Château de Langeais is a 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic castle in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of…
Palace & château · 14th century · #72 in France
The Château de Sully-sur-Loire is a castle, converted to a palatial seigneurial residence, situated in the commune of Sully-sur-Loire, Centre-Val de…
Castle · 10th century · #78 in France
The Château de Montsoreau is a Flamboyant Gothic castle in the Loire Valley, directly built in the Loire riverbed.
Castle · #91 in France
The Castle of Menars is a castle associated with Madame de Pompadour situated on the bank of the river Loire in Menars, Loir-et-Cher, France.
Palace & château · 16th century · #106 in France
The Château de Candé is a château located in the commune of Monts, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Ruin · 15th century · #115 in France
The royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours is the remains of a late Gothic château located in the town of La Riche in the Indre-et-Loire department, in…
Palace & château · 15th century · #118 in France
Château du Plessis-Bourré is a château in the Loire Valley in France, situated in the commune of Écuillé in the Maine-et-Loire department.
Ruin · 13th century · #122 in France
The Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers is a ruined castle in the commune of Les Trois-Moutiers in the Vienne department of France.
Castle · 15th century · #124 in France
The Château du Rivau is a castle in the village of Lémeré, Touraine, France. In the book of Rabelais' Gargantua, it was given to captain Tolmere as a…
Palace & château · 16th century · #125 in France
The Château de Beauregard is a Renaissance château in the Loire Valley in France.
Castle · 13th century · #141 in France
The Château du Lude is one of the many monumental châteaux of the Loire Valley in France.
Castle · 12th century · #147 in France
The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the…
Palace & château · 16th century · #150 in France
The Château des Réaux is a French medieval castle located in the commune Chouzé-sur-Loire in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire…
Castle · 16th century · #153 in France
The Château de Talcy is a historical building in Talcy, Loir-et-Cher, France.
Castle · 11th century · #162 in France
The Château de Montpoupon is a castle in the commune of Céré-la-Ronde in the Indre-et-Loire département of France.
Palace & château · 15th century · #168 in France
The Château de Gien is a historic manor in Gien, Loiret, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Ruin · 16th century · #171 in France
The Château de Chanteloup was an imposing 18th-century French château with elaborate gardens, compared by some contemporaries to Versailles.
Castle · 15th century · #177 in France
The Château de Troussay is one of the smallest Châteaux of the Loire Valley, France, and is situated in Cheverny, in the Loir-et-Cher.
Palace & château · #183 in France
The Château de Montrésor is a medieval castle with a Renaissance mansion built in the grounds, located in the French village of Montrésor in the…
Palace & château · 19th century · #184 in France
Château Poséidon is a château in neo-Renaissance style, located in the French municipality of Varennes-sur-Fouzon, part of the merged municipality of…
Palace & château · 16th century · #187 in France
Château de Villesavin is a 16th-century country house in the Tour-en-Sologne commune in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Castle · 15th century · #191 in France
The Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre is a castle in the commune of Fougères-sur-Bièvre, in the French department of Loir-et-Cher.
Castle · #192 in France
The Château de Saché is a writer's house museum located in a home built from the converted remains of a feudal castle.
Palace & château · 14th century · #209 in France
The Château de la Bourdaisière is a 19th-century county house in the Commune of Montlouis-sur-Loire, in the Indre-et-Loire département of France.
Palace & château · 13th century · #210 in France
The Château de Luynes is a castle located in Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France. It is first a medieval fortress, built in the 13th century, on a rocky…
Castle · 13th century · #217 in France
The Château de Meung-sur-Loire is a former castle and episcopal palace in the commune of Meung-sur-Loire in the Loiret département of France.
Palace & château · 18th century · #223 in France
The Château de Montgeoffroy is an 18th-century manor house located in the commune of Mazé, France. In 1676, Érasme de Contades acquired the property.
Castle · #224 in France
The Château d'Oiron is located in Oiron, in the Deux-Sèvres département of western France.
Ruin · 11th century · #238 in France
The Château de Montrichard is a ruined 11th-century castle at the heart of the commune of Montrichard in the Loir-et-Cher département of France.
Palace & château · 15th century · #240 in France
The Château de la Verrerie is a château in Oizon, in the ancient province of Berry in France.
Castle · 16th century · #252 in France
Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle located in Brézé, near Saumur in the Loire Valley, France.
Castle · 13th century · #266 in France
The Château de Mehun-sur-Yèvre is a castle in the town of Mehun-sur-Yèvre in the department of Cher, France.
Ruin · 11th century · #272 in France
The Château de Lavardin is a ruined castle in the village and commune of Lavardin in the Loir-et-Cher department of France.
Palace & château · 19th century · #278 in France
The Château de Grésillon is situated 250 km to the southwest of Paris in Baugé between Angers, Le Mans and Tours in France.
Castle · 14th century · #291 in France
The Château de Gizeux is an important edifice, dating from the Middle Ages and much altered over the centuries, notably during the French Renaissance…
Palace & château · 17th century · #307 in France
Château de Selles-sur-Cher is a castle located in the commune of Selles-sur-Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Centre Region, France.
Castle · #312 in France
The Château de la Ferté is a Loire castle in the municipality of La Ferté-Saint-Aubin in the département of Loiret in the Centre-Val de Loire region…
Castle · #315 in France
La Possonnière Castle, also called Château de Ronsard, belongs to the French commune of Vallée-de-Ronsard in the Loir-et-Cher department.
Castle · 15th century · #328 in France
Château du Moulin belongs to the French commune of Lassay-sur-Croisne in the department of Loir-et-Cher in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Ruin · 10th century · #336 in France
The ruin of the Château de Vendôme stands in the small French town of Vendôme in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Castle · 15th century · #337 in France
The Château de Baugé is a castle, extensively altered and restored to create a château, in the commune of Baugé-en-Anjou in the Maine-et-Loire…
Castle · 17th century · #371 in France
The Château de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire is a French castle, built in the 17th and 18th centuries, located in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire in the department of…
The Castlemap atlas charts 23 castles, 29 palaces & châteaux and 6 ruins in the Loire Valley. They span from c. 850 to 1882.
The best known is Château de Chambord, #21 of 7,738 worldwide.
Château d'Angers — c. 850.
