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It is therefore a millimeter displacement, prepared in the smallest details to be expected. A certain presence that has the gift of annoying opponents of the Head of State and some of the residents. No meeting is planned with the Amboisiennes and Amboisiens. The security system will be intense from 7h to 13h, or 16h for some points (even if the population will finally have the right to appear at the windows), which is particularly unprecedented for a municipality of 13,000 inhabitants.

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But as said the prefect of Indre-et-Loire Corinne Orzechowski: "it is not a simple presidential visit but a diplomatic visit. With all his codes. Thus, even the press will be largely excluded from the perimeter except a few selected journalists to film presidents. Just shoot or watch. Do not even imagine asking questions …

Nevertheless, it is a certainty, the images of the handshakes, the sequence on the grave or the walk in the park Clos Lucé will go around Europe … or more. A way for Emmanuel Macron to campaign at 3 weeks of the European elections on Sunday 26 May. Even if the Italian president does not have the same power as the president councilor Matteo Salvini (with whom Macron is well scrambled) this pair of heads of state will show the image of two European countries united with the same objective (the promotion of 'an anniversary'), the kind of symbols appreciated by politics (read our full badysis of this meeting on 37 degrees).

Well beyond this double presidential course in two of the three castles of the city (in addition to the Royal Castle and Clos Lucé, there is also Chateau Gaillard), Amboise lives an exceptional year. Crossed by a million tourists a year, she expects a rise in attendance around 30%. In any case the bookings jump. Everything is full or almost for weeks, Clos Lucé has already seen 100,000 people against about 80,000 on a normal start of year. It must be said that the promotion of this 500^th anniversary of the Renaissance was intense in France and in the world (Italy, Brazil …), the Regional Council has released the book of checks with elected trips, press conferences … Way to remember that Leonardo da Vinci was a European painter and inventor.

At Château d'Amboise, we also feel strongly this anniversary effect: "a lot of eyes are turned to Amboise, it's great. A lot of work to prepare all this, but a lot of fun "says the communication manager of Amboise Castle Samuel Buchwalder. "We have a lot of people who have seen on TV or heard on the radio that Leonardo da Vinci was intimately related to Amboise. They come from all over the world: Spaniards, Italians, Russians, Americans, Asians … We could say that people could have come last year or next year but no, this is an opportunity to recall the story of this universal character. Leonardo in Japan, Argentina, the United States or Russia is a reference figure "he adds.

"It invites us to surpbad ourselves and to engage projects in the boxes for a long time, it is the moment or never" still notes Samuel Buchwalder evoking the joint exhibition of the Royal Castle with the National Library of France to dissect the myth of the death Leonardo da Vinci who would have breathed his last breath in the arms of Francis I … which is wrong. Another event: an badociation with an Italian graffiti artist who reinterpreted the painting of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in 5 large formats. With also a Renaissance Bal, shows …

No doubt therefore: despite the organizational inconvenience of the presidential visit, Amboise intends to take advantage of this national, European or even global spotlight to strengthen its tourist appeal over time. Of what to make without doubt the engine of the department of Indre-et-Loire, eclipsing even Tours which does not put for the moment a great accent on this side Renaissance.