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Château de Villandry
The most famous gardens of the Loire, terraced in Renaissance style, with a kitchen garden laid out like a tapestry.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid; a cheaper ticket covers only the gardens
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- 3 Rue Principale, 37510 VillandryDirections
- Getting There
- About 20 minutes by car or bike west of Tours.
Why Go
The château was finished in 1536, and from 1906 the Carvallo family re-created its gardens on three levels: a water garden, ornamental gardens of clipped box shaped into symbols of love, and a vast potager where cabbages, leeks and flowers are planted in colored patterns that change with the seasons.
Tips
- Climb the keep for the view down onto the patterns of the gardens.
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