The Galerie des Dômes at Chenonceau is the long grand building you see to your right as you come into the entrance courtyard. It is a service building, originally consisting of stables, wine cellar and apothecary. It still has all of those things but the stables have been converted to a cafe and toilets have been added in modern times. In addition it now houses a reconstruction of the World War One hospital that was on site between 1914 and 1918. It is a fairly early addition to the famous chateau estate, having been constructed during Catherine de Medici's ownership in the third quarter of the 16th century.
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