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Château de Chenonceau

Château de Chenonceau drew 800,000 visitors by current estimates, a figure the operator has not confirmed. It stands in Chenonceaux, in Centre-Val de Loire, a region that recorded 10.4 million overnight stays the same year.

Type
Château
Town / region
Chenonceaux, Centre-Val de Loire
Visitors per year
800,000 · estimate — verify before use
Hotel stock in town
1 upper-tier · 23 keys recorded
Nearest gateways
Tours–Val de Loire (TUF)
Access
Tours is 70 minutes from Paris; beyond that the châteaux require a car. The standard format is rail to Tours, then a rental on arrival.
Also on file in the region
ZooParc de Beauval (2,000,000), Domaine national de Chambord (1,148,509), Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (537,938)
Region volume
10.4 m overnight stays in 2025 across Centre-Val de Loire, 6 departments
Season
April–October
Events in the region
Printemps de Bourges (Apr)
The regional market
A single product: the Loire châteaux. It sustains steady sightseeing volume and the densest concentration of château-hotels in France.
From Paris by rail
Orléans — 1 h 00 by TGV, Tours — 1 h 10 by TGV

Estimate from secondary sources; treat as an order of magnitude. verified 26 August 2026.

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