Guided tours

Name: Guided tours
Start: 2023-09-16T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Château-Mairie

Fortified site and castle of the lords of Château-Renault founded in the 10th century and rebuilt during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. The estate includes a Romanesque dungeon (1160), a fortified

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Ville de Château-Renault

Fortified site and castle of the lords of Château-Renault founded in the 10th century and rebuilt during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. The estate includes a Romanesque keep (1160), a fortified gate of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an old orangery, common of the eighteenth century, a manor house remodeled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, gardens and a wooded park.
Exceptional access to medieval cellars!

About the location

Château-Mairie

Hôtel de Ville 37110 Château-Renault

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

Strengthened Site and castle of the Lords of Castle-Renault based(established) in the Xth century and rebuilt in the course of the XIIth, XIIIth and XIVth centuries. The domain includes a Romanic donjon (1160), a door strengthened by the XIIIth and XIVth centuries (current Clock tower), one orangery of the XIXth century, of common(shared) the XVIIIth century, a manorial home, gardens, a new rose garden and an old(former) sported park. Based(Established) by the Lords Guicher de Château-Renault in the Xth century, he was property of the counts of Blois, of the family of Orléans, and from the XVIth century, of the family Rousselet. The manorial home keeps(preserves) in several places the coat of arms of the famous vice-admiral François-Louis Rousselet, thinks "Chateauregnault", believer(regular customer) of the king Louis XIV. In the XIXth century, the site becomes property of the family Calmon, which gives it in 1948 in the city of Castle-Renault. The medieval cellars saved(spared) by diverse fires of the castle open to the visitors in several subterranean metres.