This is the "kitchen garden" at France's Villandry with the chateau in the background. Lebanon's Ann Coleman restored it to its Renaissance glory in the early 1900s. France's Chateau de Villandry is ...

The gardens. Rather than a park with lawns and woods, which most chateaux have, Villandry boasts an extraordinary arrangement of formal gardens based on medieval and Renaissance designs, with each ...

Along the Loire River Valley, the beautiful French countryside is studded with châteaux. Along the Loire River Valley, the beautiful French countryside is studded with evocative châteaux. Home-basing ...

"Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to travel to the Loire Valley to see these wonders with their own eyes," the Internet giant's Paris-based cultural institute said in a statement on Tuesday ...

Chateau Villlandry was completed around 1536 and was the last of the large chateaux built in the Loire Valley during the renaissance. Photo / PK Stowers PK Stowers travels to France's Loire Valley and ...

(<<< Continued from previous page) But the garden is about more than straight lines. Henri's great-grandfather, Joachim (a Spanish doctor married to an American heiress who funded the purchase of the ...