Look closely at the lower right corner: the huge Chateau d’Amboise has a ‘little yard’ — cortil in Old French — and a side door.A closer look.At the top.Another view of the chateau.The chapel.
8 thoughts on “(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: le cortil”
Wonderful photos =]
Thanks! It really tickles me somehow that this mountain of a chateau has a tiny, carefully planted side garden. (I took these photos in May 2007, btw.)
nice work – you certainly are well traveled! I enjoyed the little border around it.
I’m glad this was posted on Wordless Wednesday because I’m speechless. Wonderful photos and gardens.
I am mining a group of old photos that I took on a wonderful trip to France several years ago.
I love those pollarded trees.
Oh, I know! Because the original plantings and a lot of the original architecture of the chateau has been destroyed in one revolution or another, the landscaping is very modern, but with nods to the past. There is also a lovely cemetery with the graves of the Algerian servants who followed their king to his exile/imprisonment at Amboise.
[…] al-Qadir and his household were held in the Château d’Amboise in the Loire Valley. Those who died before he was released in 1852 were buried […]
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Wonderful photos =]
Thanks! It really tickles me somehow that this mountain of a chateau has a tiny, carefully planted side garden. (I took these photos in May 2007, btw.)
nice work – you certainly are well traveled! I enjoyed the little border around it.
I’m glad this was posted on Wordless Wednesday because I’m speechless. Wonderful photos and gardens.
I am mining a group of old photos that I took on a wonderful trip to France several years ago.
I love those pollarded trees.
Oh, I know! Because the original plantings and a lot of the original architecture of the chateau has been destroyed in one revolution or another, the landscaping is very modern, but with nods to the past. There is also a lovely cemetery with the graves of the Algerian servants who followed their king to his exile/imprisonment at Amboise.
[…] al-Qadir and his household were held in the Château d’Amboise in the Loire Valley. Those who died before he was released in 1852 were buried […]