Sound and Light

Name: Sound and Light
Start: 2023-09-16T22:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Château Royal

A festival of special visual and sound effects follows the grandiose architecture of the courtyard, evoking the famous episodes of the Castle’s history.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

reduced rate: 9€ per person (free for children under 18)

As soon as night falls, in a sound and visual setting as captivating as striking of realism, Thus Blois is told you reveals the four wings and the genius of the great builders of the thirteenth to seventeenth century. Precise 3D modeling of the morphology of the facades to dress and animate the architectural diversity of the places, remixed music, spatialized voices, video mapping, uses of cinematic processes, inlay of real shooting scenes: the technologies used for this unique scenography allowed all the eccentricities never seen in Blois.

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