Things to do in Angers
Around Angers, Notrebellefrance lists 9 tourist sites within 25 km, including 6 castles. Not to be missed: Château de Brissac, Angers and Le château d'Angers.
Château de Brissac
Taller than all the royal castles, Brissac, with seven storeys and 204 rooms, deserves its nickname of giant of the Loire Valley.
Angers
Former capital of Anjou dominated by its fortified castle with seventeen towers, whose old town preserves superb half-timbered houses.
Le château d'Angers
This colossus of tuffeau and slate piles up superlatives: 17 towers, a kilometre of walls, 1,000 years of history, plenty of activities and the largest medieval tapestry in the world.
Terra Botanica
Château du Plessis-Macé
Château du Plessis-Bourré
The château du Plessis-Bourré was rebuilt from 1468 on the foundations of a medieval fortress, the château du Plessis-le-Vent, bought in 1462 by Jean Bourré, grand treasurer and trusted man of Louis XI.
Le Jardin des Kangourous
Château de Serrant
The sumptuous château de Serrant, whose brown schist contrasts with white tuffeau, has a lot of personality.
Château de Montgeoffroy
In the heart of Anjou, the château de Montgeoffroy, inhabited by the de Contades family since 1670, perpetuates the French art of living in the rediscovered freshness of its eighteenth-century decor.