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Chateau de Villandry

This Renaissance castle is world famous for its gardens. It is also a good looking castle with some good interiors. The Oriental Drawing Room has a most amazing ceiling. Dr Carvallo, the owner in the early 20th century, bought the ceiling of a mosque in a sale in Toledo. The ceiling was carefully dismantled and just as carefully reassembled and installed at Villandry. It is a decorated wooden ceiling, octagonal and hemispherical.

                                           

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Edwin in garden