Sarthe

Pays de la Loire

Château du Lude

A Hundred Years' War fortress turned pleasure palace by the Daillon family, Le Lude gained a Louis XVI wing and then Renaissance Revival interiors in the 19th century. It towers over the Loir valley in the Sarthe, above its terraced gardens. It is one of the last great châteaux of the Loire still…

Pays de la Loire

Château de La Chevallerie

Carved paneling on every floor and Versailles parquet all the way to the top, a rarity even in grand houses: that is what convinced the designer Timothy Corrigan to buy La Chevallerie in 2018, after visiting more than fifty châteaux. An 18th-century main house flanked by towers and 17th-century…