Chateau de Villemonteix, Saint-Pardoux-les-Cards

Take your sweet time here to explore, it's absolutely worth it! Beautifully and carefully preserved and restored 15th century chateau, very kind owner, mellow and super friendly black hound on front lawn, overseeing picturesque tranquility of typical french countryside on upper floors. The young tour guide, I believe his name is Valentin, is deserved to get credit. He's informative, knowledgeable, knows how to trigger your curiosity, combining Greek and Roman mythologies, with crisp clear voice and various tones, superb at story telling! He would be WAY better than most of hosts on TV travel programs, period! Nicely restored interior has lots of stories and very educative as well. Unfortunately they only have printed English version of each section that the young guide would cover, with limited English, but fortunately for me I know just enough french to appreciate what he's saying, so the whole trip ends up extremely enjoyable, especially when we take turns go on top of the tour.

Beautiful. We ran out of time to see the inside. My daughter got to play with the friendly hound on the front lawn though. Thank you to the current owners for allowing us to view your beautiful property.