Château de Blois - Château de la Loire

It brings together around a common courtyard four times of the French architecture: Gothic of the thirteenth century with the Hall of States, the oldest civil Gothic hall of France, the Gothic and the introduction of the Renaissance with the wing Louis XII built in the late fifteenth century, Renaissance of the sixteenth century with Francis I who introduced the Italian architectural and decorative vocabulary with spiral staircase and the facade of the Lodges, and finally the classical architecture of the seventeenth century wing Gaston d'Orleans, whose best example is the dome of Mansart.