Guided ramblings

Name: Guided ramblings
Start: 2023-09-16T15:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Château Royal

Stroll through the centuries from the Château de Blois to the Halle aux grains!

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free on reservation

Registration

02 54 90 44 00 Register / book: http://www.halleauxgrains.com

Wandering through the centuries from Blois Castle to the Grain Market! The BIM collective is back in Blois with a specific creation in collaboration with the guides of the City of Art and History service of the city of Blois. Creators of physical performances in situ, they invent for the occasion a unique crossing of the city, going through the centuries of history of the Royal Castle at the Grain Hall and making us share their poetic, offbeat and funny look on public spaces, streets and buildings.

About the location

Château Royal

6 place du Château, 41000 Blois

Loir-et-Cher
Centre-Val de Loire

Castle of the counts of Blois became under Louis XII then François I royal castle. It gathers around the same courtyard, four castles, four eras, four peaks of French architecture: the Gothic of the thirteenth century with the Hall of States, the flamboyant Gothic and the introduction of the Renaissance of the late fifteenth century with the wing Louis XII, the Renaissance of the sixteenth century in the François I wing and finally the classical architecture of the seventeenth century of the Gaston d'Orléans wing. It was restored by Félix Duban in the 19th century. The 1st floor of the Louis XII wing houses the Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Blois since 1869\. The Museum of Fine Arts presents a collection of works from the Romanesque period until the 19th century: painting, sculpture, tapestry... The royal castle of Blois presents a real panorama of the art and history of the castles of the Loire Around the courtyard, dominated by the monumental staircase François I, unfolds a flor