One of the best-known chateaux in France is about to get a costly and much-needed renovation, thanks to a wealthy American donor. U.S. billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of private equity Blackstone, ...

Château de Chambord has 440 rooms and a fireplace for every day of the year. Courtesy of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door With its huge scale and prickly silhouette, Château de Chambord is ...

The Château de Chambord is unsettling to look at, a folly so grand it’s hard to take in, like something seen in a fever. I sit at the window of my room in the Relais de Chambord, a new hotel beside ...

The chateau of Chambord, the biggest in France's Loire Valley, will see its French formal garden restored thanks to a 3.5 million euro ($3.6 million) donation from a super-rich American financier.

The 55-room hotel is housed within a 19th-century farmhouse (which was also the site of a previous, much more modest hotel), the renovation and expansion of which was overseen by renowned French ...

Francois I’s gargantuan hunting lodge, the Château de Chambord, commenced in 1519, was conceived in the visionary sprit of the castles depicted in the celebrated pages of the Très Riches Heures du Duc ...

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has been attacked by MPs for celebrating his 40th birthday at an iconic chateau, who found it “strange” and “ridiculous”. Macron, who turns 40 on Thursday, is spending ...

The 16th-century castle, which is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, was forced to close for five days because of the flooding. Although it has since reopened, a large portion of its grounds were ...