Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Clos-Lucé
Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. BA 354) : classement par liste de 1862 et par Journal Officiel du 18 avril 1914
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 2 rue du Clos-Lucé
- Commune
- Amboise
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.41018, 0.99198
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097504
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne demeure de Léonard de Vinci, donnée en 1516 par François Ier. Il y passa les trois dernières années de sa vie. Le logis fut construit par un serviteur de Louis XI. Charles VIII en devint propriétaire et fit construire la chapelle. Architecture de style gothique flamboyant.
English translation
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History
Former dwelling of Leonardo da Vinci, given in 1516 by Francis I. He spent the last three years of his life there. The dwelling was constructed by a servant of Louis XI. Charles VIII became its owner and had the chapel constructed. Architecture of flamboyant Gothic style.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuré Saint-Thomasprieuréunder 1 mi
- Fanum des Châtelierssite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Oppidum protohistorique des Châtelierssite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Hôtel du 16e sièclehôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.