Chambord is the finest of all the châteaux in the Loire, France, and the largest. The château to end all châteaux, a masterpiece, perhaps the greatest architectural triumph the French Renaissance ever created. You will definitely find it is worth going inside, although a majority of visitors don’t do that, they just take a look at it from the outside, take a picture, maybe they’re on a bus tour or driving and they move on, but we’ll show you what they are missing.
This is a dream place to visit, 156 meters long, 117 wide and 56 meters tall with 426 rooms, 77 staircases, 282 fireplaces, more than 800 sculpted columns and with massive towers at each corner. It's second in size only to the Château of Versailles, making this one of the great national monuments of the country.
The first thing you'll see inside is one of the main architectural highlights, a spectacular double spiral staircase – it's the centerpiece of the château. It forms a double helix with two intertwined flights of steps ascending three floors, without ever meeting.
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