Inheritance and history

In Touraine, the castles and beautiful residences are shelled like pearls on a rosary around Loire and its outskirts: Vienna, Indre and Cher. festival and Renaissance soul? Amboise, Chenonceau, Azay-le-Rideau... come to live the life of castle. Catherine de Médicis, François 1st... will open the doors of their Kingdom to you. Bold heart? Prepare yourself for the attack of the defensive cities of the Middle Ages Loaches, Langeais, Chinon... offer yourself some shivers between dungeons and keeps. Dreaming soul? Awake the weapons of the heart and spirit with Ronsard, Balzac, Rabelais and Léonard de Vinci. Searching head? Leave on the traces of the prehistoric men in Southern Touraine. wandering soul? Traverse the cultural landscapes of Val de Loire in Touraine, classified within the World Inheritance of Humanity. Citizen soul? Idle about in the alive and festive capital of Touraine and Val de Loire: Tours.

The historical road of the Ladies of Touraine
Between Touraine, Loir & Cher, Indre and Sarthe, the Historical Road of the Ladies of Touraine reveals to you, throughout twenty places, of which some are still inhabited today, the history of this "country of Queens whom the Kings loved so much. Discover these stages and be impregnated by their stories or their legends. "the Road of the Ladies", more than one beautiful lesson of history and architecture, revives to you some sentimental epics of these women of Touraine and tells us the past, that of these ladies who marked their time and reigned on the policy, arts and letters. Leave to the meeting of Diane de Poitiers, Agnès Sorel, Gabrielle d' Entrées, Aliénor d Aquitaine, Claude de France as well as others.

The historical road of the Valley of the Kings
It is about a great route used since centuries along the biggest French river, Loire. This valley is attended by the kings of France who, with Capétiens, fix their incipient dynasty in Orleans before choosing Paris as a capital. Valois and Bourbons frequently return there since Val de Loire is only at two days on horseback from Paris. If the large Val de Loire deserves the evocative title of "Valley of the Kings", it remains an important economic axis. It is also an appointment for the blooming of architecture, the art of living as well as a crucible for the thought and the evolution of ideas. The "Valley of the Kings" is an inhabited garden ready to receive you.