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The forest (the size of 800 football fields) is open to the public for biking or off roading.

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More than 40 types of vegetables are planted in rotation, arranged depending on color. A team of 10 gardeners maintains the gardens

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Fancy double helix staircase possibly built by Da Vinci. Four people can walk on it and never see each other.

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Katherine added a series of gardens
She also in 1560 first ever fireworks display ever in france
Known as the Chateau of Femmes
Katherine did the grand gallery and added rooms , the chapel and the library
1230 Guillaume de Marques, first lord of the Chenonceau, built a manor on the Cher river
1864 Marguerite Pelouze she restored it
José-Emilio Terry, Cuban millionaire, acquired Chenonceau from Madame Pelouze in 1891.
sold to Francisco Terry 1896
Bernerd Voison current owner

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Largest and most prestigious of the French Renaissance castles. 440 rooms, 282 fire places, 84 staircases. 4 rectangular vaulted hallways on each floor to from a cross shape. Completely surrounded by nature. Never intended to provide defense from enemies: Just a hunting lodge. All moats and towers are for decoration. Roof scape shows 11 kinds of towers and three types of chimneys. Resembles a city skyline for this reason.

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There's a lot of controversy  as to who built this castle--Pourquoi???

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Known as Sleeping Beauty's castle

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Height: 184 feet

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View of the Château's towers

The Château d'Ussé is located in the commune of Rigny-Ussé in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France. The stronghold at the edge of the Chinonforest overlooking the Indre Valley was first fortified in the eleventh century by the Norman seigneur of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur, who surrounded the fort with a palisade on a high terrace. The site passed to the Comte de Blois, who rebuilt in stone.

In the fifteenth century, the ruined castle of Ussé was purchased by Jean V de Bueil, a captain-general of Charles VII who became seigneur of Ussé in 1431 and began rebuilding it in the 1440s; his son Antoine de Bueil married in 1462 Jeanne de Valois, the biological daughter of Charles VII and Agnès Sorel, who brought as dowry 40000 golden écus. Antoine was heavily in debt and in 1455, sold the château to Jacques d’Espinay, son of a chamberlain to the Duke of Brittany and himself chamberlain to the king; Espinay built the chapel, completed by his son Charles in 1612, in which the Flamboyant Gothicstyle is mixed with new Renaissance motifs, and began the process of rebuilding the fifteenth-century château that resulted in the sixteenth-seventeenth century aspect of the structure to be seen today.

In summer orange trees in caisses line the terrace parterre.

In the seventeenth century Louis I de Valentinay, comptroller of the royal household, demolished the north range of buildings in order to open the interior court to the spectacular view over the parterreterrace, to a design ascribed to André Le Nôtre. Valentinay's son-in-law was the military engineer Vauban, who visited Ussé on numerous occasions. The tradition maintained at Ussé is that this was the castle Charles Perrault had in mind when writing "The Sleeping Beauty"[citation needed] . Later Ussé passed to the Rohan. In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.[1] Here later François-René de Chateaubriand worked on his Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe as the guest of duchesse Claire de Duras.

In 1885 the comtesse de la Rochejaquelein bequeathed Ussé to her great-nephew, the comte de Blacas. Today the château belongs to his descendent Casimir de Blacas d' Aulps the 7th Duke of Blacas.[2]

Famed for its picturesque aspect, Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s[3] and was one of several that inspired Walt Disney in the creation of many of the Disney Castles.

Ussé was classified as a monument historique in 1931 by the French Ministry of Culture.[4]

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It is an inexpensive liquor

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Construction started in 1519
Completed in 1547

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This was the last of the great castles built during the Renaissance in the Loire Valley. Its resident was not a king but a minister. Minister Jean Le Breton built this castle by 1536 using his experience as an architect. The minister was also into gardening, and the ornamental gardens were created throughout the Middle Ages.
In the early 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte acquired the castle for his brother Jerome. Now, it is one of the most visited castles, with multiples awards, such as Label Qualité Tourisme (2009) and Eco-jardin (2013). The gardens are intended to protect the environment and are very eco-friendly. People come from all over the world to see these gardens.

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Has an inexpensive liquor named after it.

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Was used as a hospital in WWI
2nd most visited castle in France
First mentioned in the 11th century
Built in 1430 and 1514
Built and protected by women
Madame Dupin leader of the group who protected it.

Burnt down in 1411 for punishment of sedition by Jean Marc

Sold to Thomas Bohier in 1430s
Misstresses acquired ownership Diane de poitiers (king Henry the second)
Diane built a bridge
Katherine de medici forced Diane out
Katherine worked on the garden
After King Henry the third wife and king henry the fourth mistress were the last to love in there till 1720
Bought by the Duke of bourbon
He sold everything in the castle and the castle
Claud de pins wife bought the castle