hâteau Louise is a 5-star luxury hotel experience dedicated to romance, intrigue and history. Thanks to period furnishings and cuisine, guests feel like they're royalty in another time. Set in one of the most beautiful parts of France, close to the royal town of Amboise, this sixteenth century château was the former child home to Louise de La Vallière, the future love of Louis, the Sun King.

A five-star boutique hotel, part of the Relais & Chateaux collection, boasting a restored 16th-century chateau, spa, restaurant, and 47-acre park with roses and majestic trees.

The on-site restaurants features gastronomy in the true spirit of a bygone age, with pride of place for authentic vegetables of the time (asparagus, skirret, viper grass), for roast meats, poultry, fish, and for desserts of the utmost refinement: flans, benoiles, sorbets.

A true country escape steeped in history throughout its themed rooms and gardens, the chateau is a prime example of Renaissance architecture as practiced in the Loire valley. It is a testament to the ambition of the Le Blanc family, which became the La Baume Le Blanc family in 1635 – a family which attained lengthy tenure of some of the most prestigious royal positions in France, close to the king himself.