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Château du Clos Lucé: tickets, hours and how to get there
The manor where Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years, with his bedroom, a park of full-size machines and the Leonardo galleries. Official prices and hours.
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Opening hours for every month are on the Opening hours page.
Checked against the official website on October 22, 2026 · Official source
In short
- On the official site the ticket costs 20 € for adults, 15 € for children aged 7 to 18, and 60 € for a family of two adults and two children. It covers the château, the park and the Leonardo da Vinci galleries. During the temporary exhibition, from 6 June to 13 September, an adult pays 25 €.
- Open every day except 1 January and 25 December. Hours depend on the month: 9:00 to 19:00 from February to June and in September and October, 9:00 to 20:00 in July and August, 9:00 to 18:00 in November and December, and 10:00 to 18:00 in January. The ticket office closes 1 hour before the site.
- Allow about 2 hours (our estimate).
- Clos Lucé is a different site from the Château Royal d’Amboise, about 1 km away (2 minutes by car, our estimate). The official page does not give a walking time.
Leonardo’s bedroom and the oratory
Leonardo da Vinci arrived at Clos Lucé in the autumn of 1516, aged 64, with Francesco Melzi, bringing the Mona Lisa, the Saint Anne and the Saint John the Baptist. The king gave him a pension of 1,000 gold écus and the title of First Painter, Engineer and Architect of the King. He died in his room on 2 May 1519, says the official site, which adds that, with his birthplace in Vinci, Clos Lucé is the only house he ever had.
The visit includes his bedroom, with a view of the royal château, the workshop, and the oratory built for Anne of Brittany, with a fresco of the Annunciation by pupils from Leonardo’s workshop. A life-size hologram recreates the visit of Cardinal Luigi d’Aragona on 10 October 1517, and 40 models built with IBM come with six 3D animations.
The Leonardo da Vinci park
The park shows 20 full-size machines made from Leonardo’s drawings, among them an assault tank, an aerial screw, a paddle wheel, an Archimedes’ screw and a squirrel wheel. Translucent canvases 3 to 4 metres high show his drawings, and five bridges include a self-supporting one, a swivel bridge, a pile bridge, a two-level bridge and a Golden Horn bridge.
There is also a Leonardo garden with plants from his paintings, a grotto and springs. An audio tour with six stops is included.
The painter and architect galleries
The galleries are included in the ticket. They offer an immersive projection on his painted work, an architecture floor in five sections, and a multimedia room on the ideal city of Romorantin, which he designed for the king. The machine arcade shows ornithopters.
Clos Lucé or the Château d’Amboise?
They are two sites about 1 km apart. Clos Lucé is the house where Leonardo lived and died. The Château Royal d’Amboise has the Saint-Hubert chapel, where tradition places his tomb. A combined ticket for both is sold on Tiqets, and the official sites link to it.
The Mona Lisa is not at Clos Lucé: Leonardo brought it to France, but it is in the Louvre. The official site also says that the entrance to a supposed underground passage towards the royal château is shown: according to legend, Francis I used it every day.
