High above the little town of Amboise, on a great rocky spur overlooking the River Loire, stands one of the most important royal residences in the history of France. The
There is no other castle in the world quite like Chenonceau. Most great chateaux sit proudly on a hill or beside a river; Chenonceau does something far more daring. It
Come around the last bend in the road, and Chambord simply stops you. Out of the flat forest of the Sologne rises a fantasy in pale stone, a great white
Most castles are content to guard one town or one stretch of coast. Dublin Castle set out to rule a whole country. For the better part of seven hundred years
Some places feel almost too dramatic to be real, and the Rock of Cashel is one of them. Rising straight out of the flat green farmland of County Tipperary, this