I had stayed overnight in a nice "chambre d ́hotes" in Onzain on the right side of the Loire. A bridge spans over the Loire here. The Via Turonensis runs through Chaumont sur Loire and turns "inland" just after the castle.

The Château de Chaumont was once owned by Catherine de Medici, who entertained here numerous astrologers, among them Nostradamus. Later she forced her husband´s mistress Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Château de Chaumont for Château de Chenonceau.