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 ...

If the famed French writer Victor Hugo had visited the Château de Chambord today, it’s safe to say he would have been over-sharing it on Instagram. After travelling there for the first time, he wrote: ...

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 ...

Odds are, when you think of French palaces, Versailles immediately comes to mind. But the iconic structure is far from the only former royal residence that France boasts, and now another of its most ...

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 ...