This documentary unveils the monumental engineering and scandalous history behind the Château de Chambord, a structure so ambitious it was once deemed impossible. Commissioned by the young, visionary King Francis I and designed in collaboration with the legendary Leonardo da Vinci, this “stone giant” was built on a treacherous swamp using revolutionary 3D-like geometry, including its famous double-helix staircase. From hiding the Mona Lisa during WWII to bankrupting the French treasury, the video explores the construction secrets, the “coded messages” in its architecture, and the 500-year-old mystery of its missing floor plans.
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Truly majestic!
Feels illegal being this early
Spending immense amounts of money on building castles drained France's treasury and contributed to the resentment against the king, leading eventually to the French Revolution.
Oh, and did I mention that spending vast amounts on war was the people's other gripe?
If I had this Id probably like live in the loft and have the rest of the house open to the public/weddings/events at break even.
25:20 Sounds to me like he learned from his captivity that a king's person was just as liable to capture as any peasant and built his living quarters to be as inaccessible as possible.
Well bugger furnishing that !
Hold up, he was freed for exchange of his 2 sons ? So for him to be free, his sons took his place in a Spain prison?!
Meanwhile in Africa: 🛖
I'd lof liiked to know what the disease, if any, the stone had. Could it be ameliorated? When the stone was shown to be so easily carved I knew something was up. Closely it didn't look right to me. Now I must reasearch further. Also I will find a video, if there is one, of a tour thru the place.I don't think it was ever meant to be a fortress so the moat was used for aesthetic reason? I don't know about any of this, just my feelings mainly. I was hoping some geologists and architects had commented as well as those which are below!.Great video, so glad I found it, don't know why it popped up in my subcriptions tho. I will subscribe!
amazing
It was all my idea, you're welcome. And all the rooms were supposed to be public toilets.
………a Crime perpetrated on the People of France………….
…..I guess the thieves that were the Royalty at the time paid with their HEADS !!!!
"At great Expense he hired the greatest Genius Leonardo Davinci…………he offered him Room and Boarding"
……Who wrote this Drivel ?
……The guy gave up his two sons for freedom……….should we be idolizing this TRASH ?
An architectural masterpiece ahead of its time.
An “impossible” project… and they actually built it?
People call projects “impossible” until someone builds them. Has human ambition always been ahead of its time?
An ‘impossible’ design… or just genius ahead of its time?
Came to relax, stayed amazed. How was this even possible at that time?
An ‘impossible’ design that actually exists… that’s wild. Do you think Leonardo da Vinci really influenced the architecture of Château de Chambord?
If Leonardo da Vinci really helped design Chambord, how did he imagine something so advanced for that time? Incredible story!
Just because you have dramatic music doesn't make this real. The credential persons speaking are not the ones who would know how it was built. Sounds like the Ashkenazim story.
Let's take an architectural masterpiece make in part of chalk and build it in a swamp
Been there several times ,, it's fantastic, but Chateau Chenonceau is more beautiful, also in the Loire , its smaller , and the way its built next to the river is beautiful.
Interesting choice of the subject but terrible exceucted by the producers, its a chain of chaos and distraction……👎👎👎
I ended my subcribtion to this channel instantly……….
this was not made by any mortal man
14:56 still perfectly level
It is NOT 156 Meters, it is 80 TOISES
French greatness at its finest.
Outstanding presentation
King Francis was liberated as a p.o.w. in exchange for his two sons, Francis and Henry, from a war that he waged. It's fascinating to see places like this. It's bewildering beyond belief to see these achievements of humanity, and deeply disturbing to think of the death, depravity and selfishness so often underlying these accomplishments. So much so that a man will trade his own sons for freedom, just to return to his chateau. I built a chicken coop recently and empires and dynasties rose and fell. Fortunes were made and lost in a moment. Fates were upheld and free will was but a notion. Dreams were crushed along with my thumb and after centuries, Palacio del Gallitas reached completion. Then a flood came.
WOW! Out of this world!
You have to admire the stone Mason's who did the work, incredible..
You can imagine King Frances thinking about Chambord the whole time while imprisoned.
Such a great video. It’s a real shame the music is so melodramatic and completely distracting!!
SCREW METRIC.
2 minutes of obnoxious and unnecessary background music was quite enough, thank you very much!
Do better next time.
built in the style of continuity, in shape and design.
12:33 Look at LD 😢
I understand wanting to make this feel more like a documentary with all of the expert sources providing their commentary, but it really divides up the presentation in a choppy and tortuous way. I've watched ten minutes of this 50 minute video and I've determined that the amount I've learned could have been presented in less than two minutes. The biggest problem is that my attention span isn't even particularly short, particularly not by modern standards, but the information density needs to be high enough to retain my attention.