Medieval towns in loir et cher

Visit the medieval towns and enjoy their history.

Discover the medieval town of mennetou sur cher  Mennetou sur cher is Medieval Cité with the doors of the Sologne. The city, strengthened in XIIIème S. still keeps generous traces of its past: doors, turns, wall enclosing, half-timbered houses, priory, lanes picturesque… Bordered by the Cher river and the Channel of Berry it is a sea of greenery which is offered to the visitors in search authencity.

Visit the town of montrichard  This pretty medieval town, place chief of canton, is also an extremely active center of life. Located at the edge of Expensive, the borders of the departments of the Dormouse & Expensive and of Indre and the Loire, Montrichard is announced as of the RN 76 from where one can admire his superb overhung silhouette of the Keep of 12th S. Of night the spectacle is imposing. The city will appear then with seen at the rhythm of a stroll during which you will discover in turn the old houses of 11th, 15th and 16th centuries, the churches, the fountains, the hotel of effiat (old old people's home of the city but also of the trade in any kind and the restaurants of charm. The rise of the dégrès of co. Cross will give access to you the church same name (old vault of the castle) and the keep of the 12th s.et to its exceptional panorama on the valley of Cher. Do not miss the bridge by the 12th century and its “house of the frontier runner”, and the vision of night of these 2 structures whose setting in light was worth in Montrichard, small town of 3500 inhabitants, in 2004 the 1st price of the contest light in front of the towns of Nimes and Rouen. Monday afternoon and Friday morning a coloured market settles in the centre town and in summer the painters of Montrichard give you appointment under the plane trees, places Barthélémy Gilbert at the foot of the Keep… Of many possible lodgings: hotels, camp-sites, lodgings and rooms of Host. The city lives at the rate/rhythm of demonstration, living room of antiquities, Spectacles of the keep in July August, the festivals of July 14, the secondhand trade of August, the appointments of the bread (October) and Touraine early product (November)…

Discover the medieval town of saint-aignan  Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher is set up with hillside on the edges of the Cher river. Having a very envied situation, with the crossroads of the Three Orlénais-Touraine-Berry Provinces, this charming medieval town knew to develop while respecting a whole of masonries and monuments old: Renaissance castle, Collegial of 11th and 12th centuries, crypt with remarkable frescos, Hospital, houses with wood sides…