From our guide to French Hotels & Châteaux
Just imagine visiting Amboise, doing a whistle-stop tour of the magnificent château, a spot of lunch, and then staying in a beautiful manoir from whose wine cellars runs a secret tunnel...
You get more than you pay for here, so enjoy it to the hilt. The refined manoir in the idyllic setting was once a farmhouse whose occupants fell on hard times...
You will meet wine-makers, farmers, craftspeople, intellectuals, sportsmen, musicians, artists, aristocrats, merchants, writers and poets. They will spoil you rotten or leave you alone, encourage you to get under the skin of their local culture or let you do your own thing. You can loaf all day beside the stream, fish in lakes, walk in ancient parkland – all this within the grounds of these places. There are few, if any, countries with such a sparkling variety of special places to stay and such inspired professionalism in running them.
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