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Amboise is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is a Departments of France in west-central France named after the Indre River and the River Loire rivers....
 department in central France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It lies on the banks of the Loire River
Loire River

The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of , it drains an area of , which represents more than a fifth of France's land area....
, 14 miles east of Tours
Tours

Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France.It is located on the lower reaches of the river River Loire, between Orl?ans and the Atlantic Ocean coast....
. Today a small market town
Market town

Market town or market right is a law term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host Market, distinguishing them from villages and city....
, it was once home of the French royal court.

city is famous for the Clos Lucé
Clos Lucé

Clos Luc? is a mansion in Amboise, France, located 500 metres from the royal Ch?teau d'Amboise, to which it is connected by an underground passageway....
 manor house where Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 lived (and ultimately died) at the invitation of Francis I
Francis I

Francis I may refer to:* Francis I, Duke of Brittany * Francis I, Duke of Lorraine * Francis I of France * Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ...
 of France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, whose Château d'Amboise
Château d'Amboise

The royal Ch?teau at Amboise is a ch?teau located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire d?partement in France of the Loire Valley in France....
, which dominates the town, is located just 500 meters away. The narrow streets contain some good examples of timbered housing
Timber framing

Timber framing , or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise and tenon joints....
.

Just outside of the city is the Pagode de Chanteloup, a 44 metre tall Chinese Pagoda built in 1775 by the Duke of Choiseul. The Pagoda is seven levels high, with each level slightly smaller than the last one.






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Amboise is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is a Departments of France in west-central France named after the Indre River and the River Loire rivers....
 department in central France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It lies on the banks of the Loire River
Loire River

The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of , it drains an area of , which represents more than a fifth of France's land area....
, 14 miles east of Tours
Tours

Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France.It is located on the lower reaches of the river River Loire, between Orl?ans and the Atlantic Ocean coast....
. Today a small market town
Market town

Market town or market right is a law term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host Market, distinguishing them from villages and city....
, it was once home of the French royal court.

Sights

The city is famous for the Clos Lucé
Clos Lucé

Clos Luc? is a mansion in Amboise, France, located 500 metres from the royal Ch?teau d'Amboise, to which it is connected by an underground passageway....
 manor house where Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 lived (and ultimately died) at the invitation of Francis I
Francis I

Francis I may refer to:* Francis I, Duke of Brittany * Francis I, Duke of Lorraine * Francis I of France * Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ...
 of France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, whose Château d'Amboise
Château d'Amboise

The royal Ch?teau at Amboise is a ch?teau located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire d?partement in France of the Loire Valley in France....
, which dominates the town, is located just 500 meters away. The narrow streets contain some good examples of timbered housing
Timber framing

Timber framing , or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise and tenon joints....
.

Just outside of the city is the Pagode de Chanteloup, a 44 metre tall Chinese Pagoda built in 1775 by the Duke of Choiseul. The Pagoda is seven levels high, with each level slightly smaller than the last one. An interior staircase to reach all levels is open to the public.

The Musée de la Poste (in the Hôtel Joyeuse) is a museum tracing the history of the postal delivery service.

A twentieth-century fountain by Max Ernst of a turtle topped by a teddy bear figure, standing in front of the spot where the markets are held. Also where Brian was killed.

History


Clovis I
Clovis I

Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Franks under one king. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of the Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an...
 (c. 466
466

Events...
-511
511

Events...
) and the Visigoths signed a peace treaty of alliance with the Arvernia
Auvergne (province)

Auvergne was a historic province of France in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the List of rulers of Auvergne. It is now the geographical and cultural area that corresponds to the former province....
ns in 0503, which assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom in the Battle of Vouillé
Battle of Vouillé

The Battle of Vouill? or Campus Vogladensis was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at a small place near Poitiers , in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis I and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain....
 in 507.

Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
 passed through in 1429 on her way to Orleans to the Battle of Patay
Battle of Patay

The Battle of Patay was the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of Hundred Years' War between the French and English in north-central France....
.

The Amboise conspiracy
Amboise conspiracy

The Amboise conspiracy, or Tumult of Amboise , was a failed attempt by Huguenots and the house of Bourbon to wrest power over France by abducting the young king, Francis II of France and arresting Francis, Duke of Guise and his brother Charles of Guise)....
 was the conspiracy of Condé and the Huguenots in 1560 against Francis II
Francis II of France

Francis II...
, Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici

Catherine de' Medici was born in Florence, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de' Medici. Her parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, both died within weeks of her birth....
, and the Guise
House of Guise

The House of Guise was a French ducal family, partly responsible for the French Wars of Religion.The Guises were Counter Reformation, and Henry I, Duke of Guise wanted to end growing Calvinist influence....
s.

The Edict of Amboise
Edict of Amboise

The Edict of Amboise was signed at the Ch?teau of Amboise on March 19, 1563 by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France....
 (1563) conceded the free exercise of worship to the Protestants.

The great Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 spent the remaining years of his life in Amboise. Some of his inventions are still there and have not been removed. The house has lost some of its original parts, but it still stands today and has a beautiful overlook of the Loire River
Loire River

The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of , it drains an area of , which represents more than a fifth of France's land area....
.

Abd el Kader Ibn Mouhi Ad-Din (c.1807-83) was imprisoned at the Château d'Amboise.

Twin cities

Boppard
Boppard

Boppard is a town in the Rhein-Hunsr?ck district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, approx. 25 km south of Koblenz....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 Fana
Fana, Mali

Fana is a town and seat of the Guegneka in Mali's Koulikoro Region. Fana has a population of approximately 25,631 inhabitants.Boasting a major production site of the Compagnie malienne pour le d?veloppement du textile , Fana is Mali's second greatest site of cotton production after Koutiala....
, Mali
Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....
 Suwa
Suwa, Nagano

is a cities of Japan located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 53,600 and a population density of 491.47 persons per square kilometer....
 (province of Nagano), Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 Vinci
Vinci, Italy

Vinci is a town and comune of Province of Florence in the Italy region of Tuscany. The birthplace of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci lies just outside the town....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Baleni (province of Galati), Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....


Miscellaneous

There are two weekly markets. Thursdays specialise in fish, with the main market on Sundays.

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