The Great Hall of Château Royal d'Amboise

The Great Hall’s perfect proportions are symmetry for the soul. Many châteaux are little more than museums, many are cold, damp and forbidding but not Château Amboise. In winter, when frost is on the ground and giant logs are crackling in the giant fireplace you feel you could move in, pull up a chair and be quite at home. Anne of Brittany’s ermine tails carved on the pillars are so familiar all over the Loire Valley when you see them again here you feel inexplicably comforted.

Post by Pamela