Must-SeeParis
Île-de-France
About 103 miles away
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame and a thousand cafés. The world's most visited city, and it earns it.
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Château de Cheverny
An elegant, still-lived-in château with its original furniture, a pack of hunting hounds and a link to Tintin.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Avenue du Château, 41700 ChevernyDirections
- Getting There
- About 20 minutes by car south of Blois; summer shuttle buses from Blois.
Why Go
The same family has owned Cheverny for more than six centuries, and its 17th-century rooms keep their painted ceilings, tapestries and furniture. Its pale facade inspired Hergé's Marlinspike Hall, and an exhibition tells the story. In the kennels, a pack of about a hundred hounds is fed each afternoon.
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