The best parties Eure-Et-Loir

A world perfume capital, Chartres organizes a week dedicated to discovering and celebrating scents. In the programme: a multitude of animations, exhibitions and olfactory shows, including a maze of intoxicating smell on the cathedral of the cathedral; but also workshops for the smaller ones, which will be happy to refine their smell in the most playful way it is. The big ones will not be left, because thematic conferences and the tour of perfume companies will be organised for them. And for the occasion, some restaurants indulge in perfume, serving cocktails and breathtaking aromas.

The time of a week-end, the whole city returned more than four centuries back, to pay tribute to Henri IV, the only king of France to have been crowned in Chartres in 1594. In his honour, therefore, the hen is placed on the menu at all participating restaurants; and above all, the city heart beats at the pace of various animations and festivities. On this occasion, the tourist office proposes a diving in the history of Chartres, through a guided tour.

At the beginning of the summer, and history of opening the festivities, Chartrestivales organizes a water festival, which creuse his bed in the habits of the Chartrains over the years. Indeed, this festival is the occasion to noyer all its worries by participating or watching the various animations that take place along the banks of the Eure, in the lower town. In the program, and in music: rowing, fishing, canoeing, boating, crossing the Eure in the rafts… and to cap the evening, retreat of the torchlight in the water of the river! Magic and facétie throughout the party!

Within the framework of the "Route du Blé en Beauce", about fifteen communes of the south of the department joined together to make discover the specificities of this territory. Among them, the agricultural heritage holds a place of choice with the visit of farms, where cereals are mainly cultivated, in particular wheat or beet. The valleys crossed by the rivers irrigating the Eure-et-Loir are also places for canoeing or walking.