Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau

We left Chinon and drove northeast to Azay-le-Rideau to see this next chateau. This is a smaller chateau, but it has a cool setting on a little island in the middle of the Indre river. It was built in the early 1500s in the Italianate style. It started raining on us when we arrived so we spent some time touring the inside before going back outside to walk around the building.

These fluorescent clad bicyclists kept walking into our photos.


The building had some pretty nifty stone carvings on the facade and on the fireplaces inside.

There were a few rooms inside that were well decorated.


You could walk all the way around the building and the dammed up portion of the river that created the little pond that it sits in.


On our way back to the car park we spotted this house that was completely covered in colorful ivy. All I could think about was, ooh, that's pretty, and wow, I bet their house is full of bugs.