page_title: The Amazing Race 21
section_title: Leg 11 (Spain → France)
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 21 / Race summary / Leg 11 (Spain → France)
caption_attribution_description: English: Château de Chenonceau - view of the arches and west facade of the Pont de Diane over the Cher River
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 21 is the twenty-first installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race on CBS. It featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
  It premiered on September 30, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and CTV with the two-hour season finale on December 9, 2012. While the prize for winning the Race remained at US$1 million, if the team that came in first in the first leg had won the Race, the prize would have been doubled to US$2 million.
  The Fabulous Beekman Boys stars and husbands Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge were the winners of The Amazing Race 21.
context_section_description: Airdate: December 9, 2012
   Palma (Palma de Mallorca Airport) to Barcelona (Barcelona–El Prat Airport)
   Barcelona (Barcelona Estació de França) to Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France  (Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps)
  Villandry (Château de Villandry) 
  Amboise (Château d'Amboise – Chapel of Saint-Hubert)
   Cheverny (Château de Cheverny)
  Bourré (La Cave des Roches) 
  Chenonceaux (Château de Chenonceau) 
  The Speed Bump required Natalie & Nadiya had to make their way to the château's Chambre du Prince and properly lace and tie up a lady's corset before they could continue racing.
  The Detour was a choice between Chow or Plow at Château de Cheverny. In Chow, teams prepared a meal of meat and other food for a large number of hunting dogs. They had to remove debris and bones from the meat, cut the meat into appropriate sizes, weigh out a designated amount of food, and then lay it out appropriately, before the judge would release the hounds and give them their next clue. In Plow, teams used a plow attached to a work horse to mill four lines in a designated field to the farmer's satisfaction in order to get their next clue. Each Detour selection only had two workstations, which were first-come, first-served.
  In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to find a store display containing three different types of mushrooms (grey oysters, wood blewits, and shiitake). Using one of the baskets they picked up at the train station, they then had to enter an underground mushroom farm, find the same three types of mushrooms, and collect 10 of each variety. If they found the correct three mushroom types, the shopkeeper would give them their next clue.
  Additional tasks
  At the train station in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps within France's Loire Valley, teams had to load 8 empty baskets from the nearby Brasserie de la Tour restaurant into their Ford Escapes, which they would use on the leg, using its hands-free liftgate opening/closing feature before heading off to the Château de Villandry.
  At Château de Villandry, teams had to search the Château's gardens for a stone dog statue that had their next clue, telling them to find Leonardo da Vinci's final resting place. This left teams to figure out that it referred to the Chapel of Saint-Hubert at the Château d'Amboise, where they would find their next clue.
  After the Roadblock, teams had to go to the "Castle of the Ladies" and had to figure out that this meant the Château de Chenonceau, the Pit Stop for this leg.
caption: Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley was the 11th Pit Stop of The Amazing Race 21.
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