A historic French chateau is not your typical vacation home. Especially not an utterly abandoned chateau. But as soon as the Waters family laid eyes on Chateau de Gudanes in the southwestern village ...

If there’s one thing the French have that we don’t, it’s castles. In New York City, you might be able to attend an illegal speakeasy inside a water tower, a recreation of the Titanic’s last supper, ...

If you want to know what it was like to live like a French aristocrat in the 1700s, now's your chance―sort of. A mother-daughter duo has teamed up to turn an abandoned, historic chateau in France into ...

At sunrise, we wandered into the heart of the French countryside—and into a forgotten world. This abandoned chateau-like mansion is more than overgrown elegance; it holds the story of a woman whose ...

Dick Strawbridge and his partner (subsequently wife) Angel Adoree swap their two-bed flat in Essex for an abandoned French chateau. Can they bring its 45 rooms and acres of land back to life?