Things to see and do Indre

The chapel, which dominates the entire city with its monumental golden statue, is visible by far. It was originally the chapel of the medieval castle. Destroyed, reconstructed, diminished, she finally was rehabilitated at the end of the nineteenth century and was the subject of a pilgrimage, in memory of the epidemic of plague of 1630. She always extends his right arm onto the city, the left behind the child Jesus. The climb to the chapel requires an effort, but it is rewarded with a splendid view of the city and Creuse.

A charming promenade is located on the right bank of Creuse, between the picturesque Moulin de Bord and the Moulin du Rabois, more industrial. This second mill is the seat of artistic associations. A contemporary art exhibition site, the Arboretum is also located there and creative workshops are organized for children. The walk is the place of the potters' market renewed every June. The promenade allows you to enjoy breathtaking views of the river and Old Bridge with its houses with wooden balconies, admire the fishermen and throw bread to ducks.

The Office de Tourisme du Blanc has a very complete reception approach. It informs you free of charge about the local tourist offer, offers free access to Wi-Fi and provides tourist maps, maps and tourist guides. The team speaks at least two foreign languages and the website of the Tourist Office is available in French, English and Spanish. The Facebook page is well fed. Other info: the office also serves as a point of sale SNCF, so it can buy its train tickets.

In addition to the usual information on the department and neighboring areas (Creuse and Haute-Vienne), the Tourist Office offers turnkey tourist tours for hikers alone or in groups: on foot, ATV, horse, or to practice a new activity: the geocatching. The room was clean and clean. A temporary exhibition space presents every summer the works of local artists (paintings, sculptures). Eguzon-Chantôme is part of the Green Stations.

The Hospice Saint-Roch Museum occupies the location of the former Hotel-Dieu founded in the XII century and rebuilds in the fifteenth century. This large and beautiful building comprises a chapel built at the end of the fifteenth century (beautiful Gothic tree), the rooms of the patients of the XII century and two wings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On more than 2,000 m ², there are four themes: ancient sculpture, pharmacy, extra-European arts, and contemporary creation. You will be able to admire the sculptures and objects gallo-roman, gallo-roman and merovingian, the paintings of xvie in the eighteenth century, the Clavecin hall of Jean Denis with its paintings of masters and furniture of the seventeenth century, or the collection of African and Oceanian arts of missionaries of the Sacred Heart. The nineteenth century pharmacy is also admirable with botanical collections, laboratory, tin pichets, beard dishes, and other mortars of the fifteenth century. Since 1995, an extension has been home to temporary exhibitions devoted to artists of our century (Fred Deux and Cécile Reims in particular). Beautiful collection of contemporary art. A very rich eclectic museum.

This building is an indisputable masterpiece of local classical architecture. He's got a little Trianon. He was refurnished in the twentieth century by collectors who mixed the times. Inside, a large number of renowned paintings by renowned painters combine exceptional furniture and décor. So he only visits with a guide. For an hour, you will find the living rooms and rooms decorated with tapestries and coordinated curtains. Rare furniture there are many (a 10-wheeler from revolutionary times, a watercolor chair, a deer table on foot…). Its owners have also restored the English-style park with its beautiful trees, including many rare trees. The park has been classified as a "remarkable Garden" since 2004. In the evenings, there is also a beautiful hippomobile museum, a comfortable stable and the saddle.

3 museums in 1: this is the concept of the three Musées museums! Its first pole - agricultural mechanisation - presents more than 500 pieces of smaller hand tools to the combine. The second pole - Space Gutenberg - has five centuries of technical evolution in the printing field. A rural factor, the third pole recounts 150 years of postal history in Berry. On the first floor, the museum has a temporary exhibition room, which brought to the fore the work of Patrick van Ingen, a chainsaw sculptor, resident in the town of Prissac in 2014.

This museum complements the visit of Health, evoking the family of George Sand and his friends. It contains objects that belonged to the family, letters and drafts of George Sand, engravings of his son Maurice and paintings from the school of Crozant (Fernand Maillaud, Paul Street, Henri Kept). It is located in the Donjon dungeon (th) and is not accessible for wheelchairs or strollers. One can also admire an astonishing collection of naturalized birds. Educational visits are organized.

Remembering his peasant childhood, the plaster version of Ernest Nivet dates back to 1912. He is sometimes a little too besieged by mad grass.

In the Neoroman style, this church was built on Dauvergne's plans, inspired by the church of Issoire in the Puy-de-Dôme, and completed in 1882. A golden virgin of 6 meters high is perched on the dome and its bell tower is 50 meters. Inside, a series of Girault-Dupin capitals and columns of the veiled granite chorus. A Pietà of the sixteenth century was reinstalled in a chapel.

Located in the city center, on the square, at the entrance to the pedestrian street, this tourist office offers you a very pleasant welcome. The documentation is rich, both for accommodation and for activities to be done or curiosities to visit in a wide range. The staff is attentive and will be able to advise you according to your interests. Good plans will be offered for exit. Guided tours are offered in the summer.

The museum store retains a well-restored industrial decor (metal staircase and wide openings). It offers the sale of ties, fantasy headlines, t-shirts, very nice fabric toys. The theme of fashion is also declined in book books and books. Exhibitions, for their part, almost always provide quality publications on fashion, clothing, patchwork and a wide selection of postcards.

Dating from the beginning of the fifteenth century, the church was largely restored in the nineteenth century in the neo-Gothic style. We admire his high arrow added and the arch of the edges of his nef. Located in the city center, in the pedestrian street, it is the only place of worship of the inhabitants. It is also open for concerts. The choir was adorned with beautiful windows of the nineteenth century, carried out by the atelier Charles Lévêque de Beauvais (the same workshop worked for the church of Prissac).

The graceful chapel was built at the end of the fifteenth century. In front of you, you can admire a beautiful door consisting of arches that go from colonnades to torsado, and depreciate into a flowered rod. The bell again is also worth a look. The chapel is used today for exhibitions and concerts, especially in the beautiful season. We have a beautiful view on the graceful side from the other shore of Creuse.

Facing Saint Benoît chapel, this ancient building houses the municipal music school. Built in the Renaissance, it consists of a semi-hexagonal semi-hexagonal turret and an ogivale door with ornamented arc. Turn around to admire both sides of the building. In the sixteenth century it was built to serve as a college, then a prison occupied the places at the end of the eighteenth century. It was then that he was named «old prison».

The hotel de Scevolles is one of the beautiful old buildings of the city. In a large paved courtyard, overlooking a garden at the door of the covered market, there is an old classic well with its pulley, as well as a whistle above the door. Surround the wrought iron grid that opens onto the garden, a medallion in Scevolles' family. This place is responsible for history!

The priory Saint-Genitour is built by the end of the eleventh century by the powerful Abbey abbey. It is around this building that the low city begins to develop. In the thirteenth century, the chapel of the priory, extended from a nef, became the parish church. The church then enlarges with chapel additions: one in the fifteenth century, two others in the xviie and the last in the xixe, together with a wind. Admire the Romanesque chorus and the grotesques that finish truncated colonnants, gothic chapels and relics of Saint Genour. A very large picture recently restored, Caesar's Denier, is hung in the transept. This is the old copy of a work by Pierre Paul Rubens.

It is the ancient church of the Convent of the Recollets, built from 1623. It is very simple and has good acoustics. The square bell dates from the twentieth century. Its furniture is particularly remarkable: It has a chair and a retable of the eighteenth century, another retable of the seventeenth century and the famous sockets containing the relics of the «Holy Saints». Beautiful stained glass of the twentieth century represents the legend of the Holy Saints and the martyrdom of Saint Etienne. Notice the poilu hosted by Christ.

Former possession of the Abbey Abbey, it houses until 1269 the relics of the Monk Cyran, the founder of the Abbey of Brenne. Near the Naillac Castle, it dominates the Creuse. It has all the purity and simplicity of Romanesque churches: a rectangular nef, a right choir, a square bell and a tile cover. The interior is clear and we are struck by its elevation. On the west wall, you can admire a painting illustrating the three dead and three vivos. This theme is also located in Antigny, close to Vienna or Prissac and Chavin in Indre. This decommissioned church serves local products in season.

Originally, it was the priory church. It is dated by the end of the eleventh century. Its portal without tympan is a pure product of the Romanesque style. The white stone is adorned with beautiful sculptures. The north portal and the west portal are decorated with geometric motifs (stars and recurring motifs). There are many capitals and softens. Recently cleaned, his bleach dazzled in the sun. The interior is darker. In the sober form, it still contains capitals with vegetal decor.

It's one of the most remarkable of the Lower Berry. You can see by far its square tower covered with shingles. Founded in the eleventh century, it is now composed of a unique nef, an abbey and two absidioles, a crypt and a fortified bell tower of the XIV century. Its chapels date from the fifteenth century, and its double-archivolte gateway is XII. The western carved portal and the nef capitals are interesting, as well as the whole nineteenth century stalemate, to the happy mercy. The church treasure contains very beautiful limousine enamels.

You cannot go to Gargilesse without discovering its church Notre-Dame, built in the xiith century stone stone. The crypt carries magnificent frescoes between xiie and the sixteenth century. Well lit, paintings fascinate their beauty. We admire an Adoration of the Mages, a Final Judgment, the Escape in Egypt, Saint Nicolas… In the choir, William de Naillac's famous gailer has been damaged by women's ill-treatment of children. The historical capitals of the 24 old people of the Apocalypse are very well preserved, although the church is very humid (the north wall is quite degraded). Several concerts are given each year in the church.

The regional park of La is among its cities the charming city of Blanc. His visit is rich in many sites to discover, including: its castle (Naillac Castle) with its 2 big dungeons, its museums (the Ecomuseum Ecomuseum and the house of friends of the white)… Of course the streets will be a great pleasure… So the visit of the Blanc is not finished!

The tourist office of Belâbre is located at the entrance to the campsite on the riverside. Julie informs you all year round about tourist events, accommodations and local activities. The tourist office also manages camping (24 locations, 5 chalets and camping grounds) and the various boat and canoe rentals, bicycles and mini golf. A cyberspace with wifi is available.

The Moulin de la Filature was in the Middle Ages a wheat mill and, in the nineteenth century, became a flax spinning that welcomed up to 400 workers in its most beautiful years. Today the mill has been restored and offers both an exhibition room (on the ground floor) and a show room (upstairs). The entertainment program is available on the website of the Tourist Office of Le Blanc. Humor, theater, dance run through the shows. It plays both Feydeau and Laurent Mauvignier. We hear Albin de la Simone or jazz. There are also games of theatrical improvization…

The covered wood bridge is a curiosity not to be missed: it is a unique building in France, classified as a historic monument. Realized in the middle of the nineteenth century, the covered bridge was well restored by the municipality of the Christian-Chabenet Bridge in 2001. This bridge, worthy of the film on the road to Madison, makes more think of the United States than France. He punctuates a pleasant walk on the edge of the Bouzanne. Long 20 m, the bridge is fully assembled by wooden ankles. The course has been shaken from the roundabout (at the exit of the village towards Argenton-sur-Creuse). Note the fun covered miniature bridge on this roundabout.

This observatory is located on the edge of a private pond near the hamlet of Blizon. It's one of the oldest ponds. it is covered with lilies. You can admire one of the last great rostrums in Brenne. There is a large colony of herons that nest on the spot. Birds that can be observed on this pond include many species of ducks, herons and magnets. Walks accompanied by the Maison de la Nature de Saint-Michel in Brenne. The Blizon Trail also allows you to discover this place alone.

It is one of the few remains of the old Châteauroux. Encircling a paved alleyway that preserved its ancient charm, the door Saint Martin deserves the detour through its romantic spect. Preferably look on the side of Rue Descente-de-Ville. It is likely to represent the coat of arms of the city with its arcade in the full shredder and its tower. Restored in the sixteenth century, this door served as a prison until 1742.

In the twelfth century, it is one of the most important squares in Aquitaine, with a dungeon and two wings of buildings joining in square brackets. In 1778 Claude Dupin, George Sand's grandfather who was a tax collector, was located at Raoul Castle. Raoul Castle, which became a hotel of the prefecture under the Consulate, serves as a residence to the prefects until 1826. Starting in 1821, a new prefecture hotel was built next to the old castle. In 1880 the restoration of Raoul Castle was begun under the direction of the architect Dauvergne. It is now the property of the General Council, but its proximity to the hotel of the prefecture prevents visits. It is only occasionally open for exhibitions and for heritage days in September. Take it through the rue de l 'Indre, it overlooks the river impressively.

Built in the th century, it is located in Duperthuis street. His tower tower gives him the appearance of an old castle of fairy tales.

3 kilometers north of Prissac, the Château-Giron Castle is a beautiful manor house surrounded by a vast meadow. He belonged to Alain Giron, a companion of Joan of Arc. With two squares and two round towers, this harmonious xve century castle is reflected in a pond. It's a private stay that doesn't visit. In the park visible from the road, note a more recent chapel. In the church of the village, the castle is reproduced in the background on the stained glass of Saint-Louis.

Like most of the houses on Grande-Rue in the upper town, the house of the Friends of the White dates from the 15th century. It is a small museum of art and popular traditions that evokes daily life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is the reconstruction of a Berry interior, the craftsmanship of the clog and shoemakers, the washers, the apothecary, the school of Jules Ferry, the bicycles in memory of the Dilecta bicycle factory. There is also a new exhibition featuring the Blançois cycle industry and the Dilecta professional sports team. Passionate volunteers take visitors on a tour of the museum.

To discover Gargilesse, a village classified in the category of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, it is necessary to put its steps in those of George Sand who describes the most beautiful aspects in his book Promenade around a village and in his Journal de Gargilesse. In the summer, the tourist office is open all over the village, between the Ferme du Château and the church, in the pigeon house. The rest of the year, it is located in the postal agency.

Near the archeological museum you will find a well-preserved Gallo-Roman theater, the Théâtre du Virou. The building was built twice: in the first century first, then in the middle of the iie century, to create a larger space. We can still sit in the stands and admire the scene downstairs. In summer, performances are organized at the Festival des Mille-Aires. Costumed and masked troops like Gallo-Roman times replay pieces of ancient authors (Sophocles, Plaute). Access to the theater is only a guided tour with the visit of the museum of Argentomagus.

Visible during the Heritage Days.

Located in the woods of Chanteloube, not far from Nohant, the Mare au Diable existed at the time of George Sand, who was walking there with his children. The mare was recorded on the cadastre in 1848. However, the current mare no longer resembles what it was in 1844, when Mauritius drew it for its mother. It is very small. Despite this, the Mare to the Devil's contemporary version still has a mysterious side under the big trees.

In a 50-hectare park, including 15 wooded areas, Château de la Roche offers holidays for children aged 4 to 16, with accommodation. Horseback riding on pony, double pony, horse, introduction to driving, archery, swimming pool, farm animal care and learning how to make bread and cheese await both young and old. As for the supervision, it is provided by one person for 6 children, and by one person for 4 grandchildren. There is a reception activity such as cousinades, parties, etc.

One of the most beautiful natural sites in the department. From the rock rocks located on the right bank of Creuse, you discover the panorama of the ruins of Crozant Castle, located in Creuse, on their rocky spur surrounded by two rivers, la Creuse and Sédelle. You can reach this landscape after a pleasant walk in the small trails lined with dry stone muds. To explain the name of this rock, it is said that every year a competition brought together the girls of the land. They had to get the wool from the famous rock. A legend says that the girl whose spindle was touching the water first without the thread breaking had the chance to marry the son of the lord or one of his companions and be richly endowed. Today, girls use much more solid yarns because the Filmmaking Rocher is a school of climbing.