AMBOISE – CLOS LUCE
Magnificient pink brick and limestone Manor house where Leonardo da Vinci lived the 3 last years of his life.
Man of greater intelligence and multiple talents who was all at once painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, musician, poet and scientist.
While visiting the Clos Lucé, we realise that his visionnary eye was 4 centuries ahead of his times.
Built on a limestone cliff overlooking the town, a lot of fortifications and defensive fortresses were buit there since the gallo-roman era. In the XVIth century, it became the royal dwelling of kings Charles VIII, Louis XIIth and Francis Ist. These three kings made a lot of changes in the architecture, expanding and embellishing the château, and making the transition between the gothic period and the beginning of the Renaisssance.