Free visit

Name: Visita libre
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Château Royal

Discover at your own pace the rooms of the royal apartments, the museum of fine arts and other spaces, including the room of the States General.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

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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