Showing posts with label Préchac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Préchac. Show all posts

12/30/2016

Happy New Year: Celebrating Beautiful Memories of 2016

Happy New Year! Thanks to our readers who joined J. Christina on our travel adventures.  We zigzagged through picturesque hamlets, strolled beautiful cobblestone streets, sipped regional wines, and climbed to the tippy-top of medieval ramparts, through Spain, Portugal, France, and many other dreamy destinations.

We enjoyed sharing our outstanding year of travels with you: on foot, river cruise ship, motorcoach, and private transport to places that will linger in our memories forever.  We had the great privilege to wake up each day to vistas that some only glimpse on a postcard.  Happily, we invite you to reminisce through our images and reflect along with us. 

 Smiling with your eyes is a wonderful thing!

Scribbles and Smiles by J Christina
Terrace -  Paris, France

We are looking forward to our 2017 travels, hopscotching through The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France, once again. While looking beyond to travels in China and India.  Wishing you health, happiness, and safe travels always. 

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10/02/2016

Royal Castle of Cazeneuve: Sauternes region and Graves area

 Gironde department
Préchac, France

The Aquitaine region straddles a prominent position in the southwest of France; stretching long and lean against the Atlantic coastline, touching the Pyrénées mountain range and transcending to the Spanish border. Where it is composed of the five departments: Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and the Gironde.  Some of Europe’s most beautiful cities, stunning beaches, and vineyard-laced landscapes are in the storied Aquitaine.

From châteaux, castles and breathtaking scenery, this alluring region is an oenophile’s paradise and every traveler’s dream. In the heart of the Aquitaine, between the wine regions of Bassin d’Arcachon and the Sauternes vineyards, is the historical Château Royal De Cazeneuve; a family jewel of the Duke of Albret. First built in the eleventh century, and later residence of Henry IV and where Queen Margo stayed; while awaiting their official divorce and where history lives on. Today this fortified castle remains a family legacy – cascading down through descendants, of the ducal family de Sabran-Pontevés.

Royal Castle of Cazeneuve located in Préchac, Gironde department, only 52 kilometers from Bordeaux – awarded with the benchmark of Tourism in Aquitaine, and with the prestigious two-star Michelin Green status; as well as, the bestowed honor of Historical Monument.  Here individual, private, and group tours are received; along with bespoke gala dinners, weddings and seminars, all by appointment only.
Scribbles and Smiles by J Christina
Fortified Royal Castle of Cazeneuve                                                         image via Flickr

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