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Discover French magical Christmas châteaux in the Loire valley
Chateaux in the Pays de la Loire work together to provide festive cheer and local towns join in the festive fun
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I have enjoyed every one of my five French chateaux renovations
Geoffrey Kenyon-May, 82, moved to France in 1975 and has since enjoyed a rollercoaster life renovating five chateaux and one watermill
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PHOTOS: See inside US designer's comfortable French chateau
Esteemed US designer Timothy Corrigan traces his passion for France and the projects he has carried out there, including his own magnificent Loire chateau
Chateau life in plastic pieces
Take one million Lego bricks, a historic Loire chateau and create a life-size Louis XV chair, a carriage clock, a desk and even a chateau hound... welcome to the Histoire en Briques Lego exhibition at Château de Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher.
The travelling exhibition, recreated each year by Studio Epicure designers, features 15 full-scale models of chateau life such as a harp, a puppet theatre and an Empire desk plus a 1.5m model of the chateau made from 28,000 bricks that took 120 hours to build.
The chateau has been in the Marquis de Vibraye’s family for six centuries and hosts the exhibition, complete with Lego workshop to build your own model, until November 2.