The domed caps of the creamy stone towers echo those at Valençay. The cherubbed fountains (faintly) evoke the Boboli Gardens in Florence. It’s magnificent. It’s also brand new and, considering it was finished in 2013, after just two years of construction and at a cost of €70 million, there’s only one place it could be – and that’s nowhere near the Loire or the monuments of renaissance Italy, but in China.