Day
1: During the first day you will tour chateaux and historic
monuments - Gien dominated by its red-bricked castle,
the Medieval fortress of Sully sur Loire, Saint
Benoit sur Loire Basilica and Orleans,
one of the oldest towns in France.
***Accommodation: Hotel L’Orée des
Chênes - La Ferté Saint Aubin (restaurant in the hotel)
***Accommodation: Hotel des Cédres
- Orléans
Day
2: Visit Chambord and Cheverny
Castles, walking discovery tour of Blois and its
chateau.
***Accommodation: Hotel Le
Médicis—Blois (excellent restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel Anne
de Bretagne - Blois
Day
3: Visit of Chaumont Castle and its gardens.
Tour of Amboise, visit of the royal chateau, the
Clos Lucé Manor and Chanteloup
Pagoda at the edge of the forest.
***Accommodation: Hotel Le
Clos d’Amboise at Amboise (no restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel Le
Blason - Amboise
Day
4 : Visit of Chenonceau Castle and walking
discovery tour of the old city of Tours
***Accommodation: Château
Beaulieu at Joué les Tours near Tours (restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel
du Manoir - Tours
Day
5: Visit of the Villandry Castle and its famous
Renaissance gardens – the Medieval castle of Langeais
– the elegant Azay le Rideau Chateau built
on an island in the middle of the Indre River – the Ussé
Castle or Sleeping Beauty’s chateau, said to have inspired
Charles Perrault’s writing of the famous fairytale.
***Accommodation: Hotel La
Marine de Loire at Montsoreau (no restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel Le
Bussy - Montsoreau
Day
6 : Tour of the Medieval city of Chinon dominated
by a fortress. You will discover Candes St Martin,
a superb village along Loire River and Montsoreau
Castle before reaching the Fontevraud Abbey, which
was one of the vastest monastical ensembles of the Christian world.
Tour the fortified city of Montreuil-Bellay.
***Accommodation: Hotel
Anne d’Anjou at Saumur (excellent restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel
Le Volney - Saumur
Day
7 : Visit Saumur Castle which overlooks the
Loire River. Follow the Loire banks to discover the Romanesque church
of Cunault and admire some great landscapes along
the famous Corniche Angevine before visiting the beautiful chateaux
of Serrant and Plessis Bourré.
***Accommodation: hotel
d’Anjou at Angers (excellent restaurant in the hotel)
**Accommodation: Hotel Le
Continental - Angers
Day
8 : Tour of Angers and its fortified castle,
the Saint Maurice Cathedral and the famous Medieval
master piece: the Tapestry Apocalyse.
Tour
commences at Gien in the morning and concludes on 8th day late afternoon
in Angers. |
