Châteaux de la Loire

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The Loire is a magnificent stage. It travels from castle to castle, like the troubadours who brought a breath of arcane legends and the charm of courtly love to Mediaeval courts. For a century, the history of France was linked to its famous river. Princes and kings, courtesans and queens, dukes and mistresses lived in princely abodes. Moved by an invisible hand that holds the strings of their memories, they still seem to sweep down stone staircases, plot revenge in the darkness of secret chambers, and dance to the gentle notes of lutes and rebecs in the great halls in the glimmering firelight. The Loire recounts its legend as if it were a fairytale, because the magnificent abodes and ancient manors strewn along the banks of the magical river, which sleep among the trees and conceal their mysteries amid huge parks and flower gardens, can only belong to a bewitched world.