Geometry in Le Château d’Angers

The view of the castle from our hotel room.

We’ve arrived in Angers. Irritatingly, Sally SatNav pronouncs it just like that. Angers. In fact, it’s ‘On-jay’.

Any right-thinking Brit should have this town on their travel itinierary when in France, because (to quote Wikipedia) ‘Angers was the seat of the Plantagenet (or Anjou) dynasty, and for over 300 years English monarchs had Angevin blood, from Henry II in 1154 to Richard III in 1485. The Angevin Kings of England had strong claims to the French throne, which eventually plunged the two nations into the Hundred Years War.’ And our hotel is opposite the seat of much of the action. Le Château d’Angers, built in the 9th – 13th centuries. We’re going to visit it today, and I dare say I shall have plenty more to say, either in my next post, or more likely once we get home. For now, we’ll look at a few outside views, and also admire the stylised geometry of the formal gardens now filling the moat.

GeometricJanuary.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

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      3. ah okay – well at least that means the next storm should have blown through. Was rough here last night, and looks like BoA might have some minor flooding again

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  4. I love Angers! Thanks for taking me back to my student days! I spent an academic year in Nantes ( in 1994/5, a few lifetimes ago) and did plenty of excursions from there. Just looking at the photographs makes me feel thirty years younger….

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