Château de Villandry was built between 1532 and 1536 by Jean Le Breton, Secretary of Finance under François I and overseer of the construction of Chambord.
Prince Jérôme’s bedroom recalls the brief period under the First Empire when the estate belonged to Napoleon I’s youngest brother. The room is decorated with mahogany furniture and red silk draperies.
The Oriental Drawing Room features a Hispano-Moorish ceiling from the 15th century Palace of the Dukes of Maqueda in Toledo. When the palace was dismantled in 1905, Joachim Carvallo brought one of its four ceilings - the one from the “Martina Room” - to Villandry. Its reconstruction, made up of 3600 pieces of polychrome wood, took an entire year to complete.
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