Chateau de Langeais

On our second day in the Loire we went to the Chateau de Langeais which was built right out of a cliff on the banks of the Loire River in the fifteenth century.  The interior rooms were beautifully decorated with tapestries and tiles.

In the Chateau

The most interesting part was the matchoulis, the exterior hallways where the soldiers threw down boiling oil or stones on the enemy.  It would have been very had to attack this castle.

This is Where the Boiling Oil Goes

We also saw the ruins of the original eleventh-century tower.  There was some medieval style scaffolding that we could climb up to see how the tower was built.

The Castle from the Tower