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The Castle Map atlas charts 30 castles, 34 palaces & châteaux and 9 ruins in the Loire Valley. They span from c. 850 to 1882.
The best known is Château de Chambord, #25 of 9,079 worldwide.
Country pages: France.
Tours · Orléans · Blois · Angers · Le Mans
Travelling rather than browsing? The Loire Valley château route puts 32 of them in travel order, Angers to Orléans.
See them on the map →Palace & château · 16th century · #25 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 · #60 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 · 10th century · #107 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 · #143 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 · #246 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 · #308 worldwide · #32 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 · #320 worldwide · #34 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 · #340 worldwide · #37 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 · #350 worldwide · #39 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 · #380 worldwide · #40 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 · #383 worldwide · #41 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 · 15th century · #42 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 · #43 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 · #46 in France
Château de Valençay is a château in the commune of Valençay, in the Indre department of France.
Palace & château · 11th century · #55 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 · #56 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 · #61 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 · #71 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 · #79 in France
The Château de Montsoreau is a Flamboyant Gothic castle in the Loire Valley, directly built in the Loire riverbed.
Castle · 17th century · #90 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 · #105 in France
The Château de Candé is a château located in the commune of Monts, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Ruin · 15th century · #114 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 · #121 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 · #126 in France
The Château de Beauregard is a Renaissance château in the Loire Valley in France.
Castle · 13th century · #139 in France
The Château du Lude is one of the many monumental châteaux of the Loire Valley in France.
Castle · 12th century · #148 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 · #151 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 · #160 in France
The Château de Talcy is a historical building in Talcy, Loir-et-Cher, France.
Castle · 11th century · #166 in France
The Château de Montpoupon is a castle in the commune of Céré-la-Ronde in the Indre-et-Loire département of France.
Ruin · 16th century · #168 in France
The Château de Chanteloup was an imposing 18th-century French château with elaborate gardens, compared by some contemporaries to Versailles.
Palace & château · 15th century · #179 in France
The Château de Gien is a historic manor in Gien, Loiret, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Palace & château · 11th century · #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…
Castle · 15th century · #191 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.
Castle · 15th century · #194 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.
Palace & château · 16th century · #197 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 · #199 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 · #211 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 · #219 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 · #224 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.
Castle · 15th century · #228 in France
The Château d'Oiron is located in Oiron, in the Deux-Sèvres département of western France.
Palace & château · 18th century · #231 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.
Palace & château · 15th century · #251 in France
The Château de la Verrerie is a château in Oizon, in the ancient province of Berry in France.
Ruin · 11th century · #256 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.
Castle · 16th century · #264 in France
Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle located in Brézé, near Saumur in the Loire Valley, France.
Palace & château · 16th century · #275 in France
The Château de Valmer is a complex located northeast of Chançay, a French commune in the Indre-et-Loire department of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Ruin · 13th century · #278 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 · #285 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.
Castle · 14th century · #317 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 · 19th century · #318 in France
The Château de Bon-Hôtel is a château of the 19th century, located in Ligny-le-Ribault, in Loiret in the region of Centre-Val de Loire.
Palace & château · 19th century · #326 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.
Palace & château · 17th century · #340 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 · #343 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 · 16th century · #346 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.
Ruin · 10th century · #371 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 · #375 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.
Castle · 15th century · #383 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 · #432 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…
Castle · 18th century · #435 in France
Palace & château · #461 in France
Castle · 17th century · #488 in France
Palace & château · 18th century · #489 in France
Castle · 12th century · #513 in France
Castle · #532 in France
Castle · #534 in France
Castle · 14th century · #545 in France
Castle · 18th century · #568 in France
Castle · #581 in France
Palace & château · 17th century · #672 in France
Ruin · #707 in France
Ruin · 11th century · #723 in France
The Castle Map atlas charts 30 castles, 34 palaces & châteaux and 9 ruins in the Loire Valley. They span from c. 850 to 1882.
The best known is Château de Chambord, #25 of 9,079 worldwide.
Château d'Angers — c. 850.
