Things to do in Blois

Château de Chambord

Chambord, which measures 156 m by 117 m and has 440 rooms, is the largest of the Loire castles.

Blois

Prefecture of Loir-et-Cher tiered on the hillsides overlooking the Loire, whose royal castle sums up several centuries of French architecture on its own.

Château de Cheverny

The Cheverny estate is a lordly property that has belonged to the same family for more than six centuries.

Château de Blois

The castle was built on a promontory overlooking the Loire and the Arrou. This place has been fortified since very ancient times.

La Fondation du doute

A place presenting the important works of that very active period of the 1960s–1970s: more than 40 artists over two floors, some 300 works, documents, archives...

Maison de la Magie Robert Houdin

Château de Beauregard

The castle's history goes back to the sixteenth century. The château de Beauregard hides behind the foliage of the Russy forest.

Le jardin d'Orchaise

The Botanical Park of the Prieuré d'Orchaise is a 3-ha park overlooking the Cisse valley, backed against a Romanesque bell tower built as early as 1060 by the monks of Marmoutier.

Château de Menars

The château de Ménars is a superb residence designed in the classical and symmetrical style very fashionable at that time. It is surrounded by a magnificent estate overlooking the river.

Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire

The château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, which overlooks the Loire Valley classified as UNESCO World Heritage, illustrates both the defensive architecture of the Gothic period and the pleasure architecture of the Renaissance.

Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre

Built in the second half of the fifteenth century and finished in the early sixteenth by three generations of ennobled Blois notables, the château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre offers the almost ideal image of a small late-medieval fortress: curtain wall, keep, gun-loop arrow slits, wall-walks and…

Château de Villesavin