Blésois castles tour

Discover the wonderful blois region's castels,chambord, villesavin, cheverny, beauregard, fougère, chaumont...

Blois  BLOIS: visit of the medieval districts, castle and of the old city (pedestrian) and gardens of old évéché (wonderful walking along the Loire river.  In the surroundings: the forest (excursions, Orchaise wine tasting) and stroll on the edge of the Loire river (tourist roads)

chambord  The castle of chambord : The plan of the château is based around a square residence flanked with round towers, a traditional form of keep and a symbol of feudal power. The axis of the keep is the splendid double helix staircase, whose two bricked spiral flights rise independently around a central hollow column, and allow two persons to climb together to the terrasse without meeting each other. Since the early twentieth century, the clarity and geometrical power of the palace has been interpreted as evidence of the involvement of Leonardo da Vinci, working for François 1er in the Loire Valley since 1516.

The "chateau de villesavin"  The "Chateau de Villesavin" is located 17 km from Blois, 9 km from Chambord and 6 km from Cheverny.  In this splendid private castle, you can be able :  TO ADMIRE accompanied by a guide, these parts richly decorated and furnished in Renaissance style  TO DISCOVER (as from April 2000) its marvellous collection of costumes and objets recalling all the history of the marriage since 1840, recognized to be most signifiant in the world  TO VISIT its unusual museum of horse drawn cars and baby carriages  TO BENEFIT from the park where you will find since Easter to All Saint's Day, its draughthorses and breeeding of donkeys, to the great pleasure of the kids.

Cheverny castle  The Cheverny's estate has belonged to the same family, the Huraults, for more than six centuries.  The architect's father was kings Henry III and Henry IV's chancellor (minister of justice)  For the famous comics writer, Hergé, Cheverny was used as a model to create Moulinsart

beauregard castle  In the village of Cellettes, next to Beuvron, leaned with the forest of Russy, the field of Beauregard has most of its 60 hectares exploited in forest while the immediate surroundings of the castle are treated in large landscaped garden well maintained and even on the back frontage the castle, a lawn is treated with a very simple French-knowhow embroidery.

fougère castle  Fougères, home port of the 3 sisters of Chateaubriant, Misses de Marigny, de Québriac and de Farcy, rather often accomodates the future writer. It remains there in their hotels, street Royale and street of Aumaillerie. It finds there also Lucie, her preferred sister, and it leaves his wife during the years of exile. Fougères preserves its imposing medieval castle whose 13 towers spread out with the length of its courtines furnished with crenels and machicouli. This building, built from the 11th to the 15th century, present an almost single complete specimen,of the Middle Age military architecture evolution.

Chaumont castle  This castle is located in a strategic place that supervises the Loire Valley, as of the 10th century the Counts of Blois had there a fortified town. At the end of the 11th century a marriage makes Lords d' Amboise the owner of this. His family preserved the place more than four centuries.