Amboise · Indre-et-Loire
The gardens on the terrace of Amboise
The royal château rebuilt by Charles VIII after his return from Italy stands on a triangular platform high above the Loire, and it is on that platform that its gardens are laid out.
From the source
Château d'Amboise is a château at Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 16th century. Its architecture is recorded as International Gothic. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The Mérimée record is about the buildings: the Gothic Logis du Roi on the Loire front, the Renaissance Louis XII wing opposite, the great towers, the chapel of Saint-Hubert said to hold the remains of Leonardo da Vinci, the years as a prison in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The château has been classified since the list of 1840. The record lists a garden among the site’s features without describing it; what a visitor finds today is the open terrace between the wings, planted and terraced over the town and the river.
Recommendation
The terrace garden is where the view over the Loire is, and where the scale of the vanished Renaissance palace becomes legible.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00097503 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/00%201292%20Ch%C3%A2teau%20d%27Amboise.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
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