Things to see and do Central

Looking for fresh air? Head for the Louroux pond, one of the largest in the region but also one of the most interesting. Classified as a sensitive natural area, many birds make their nests there. An ornithological observatory has been created to observe coots and grebes. As for the flora, two nationally protected species, the gratiola and the buttercup, grow on the site. A walk of about 5 km (2 hours) around the lake is not to be missed. Angling is permitted on the dike.

Located just a stone's throw from the cathedral, the tourist office offers a personalized and warm welcome. The team provides information on the city's points of interest, guided tours, accommodations, events and festivals… As a good mediator, the office provides an ipad to navigate the various tourist areas of the city and also the department. Discover the interactive map of the city's main attractions. The tourist office works in collaboration with the City's Heritage Department and offers guided tours. Take a break to discover the permanent exhibition called «Bourges, the memory of a city»! In Bourges, everything is done to make visitors (and inhabitants) discover the local history of yesterday and today through numerous events, including the Enlightenment Nights.

Restored and built in a museum, the Hotel des Echevins houses the works of Maurice Estève (1904-2001). This painter from Culan donated to the city of Bourges a remarkable set of pieces representative of the evolution of his work. The artist's research and questioning, as well as his confrontation and participation in the artistic movements of the twentieth century, can be traced in chronological order. Little by little, abstraction replaces the figurative, its vision of the world thickens, light and balance impregnate its compositions. Estève began painting at the earliest age and only stopped in 1998. An amateur of great masters like Fouqet, Cézanne, Poussin or Uccello, he drew inspiration from his inspiration to feed his work throughout his life. The beautiful course of the museum is enhanced by the exceptional surroundings of the three floors of the Hotel des Echevins.

It is necessary to climb a little to reach this splendid Romanesque church built in the 11th and 12th centuries. You will discover a magnificent polychrome sculpture of characters and animals from the bestiary of the Middle Ages as well as two pyramids, called "dubes". These, as well as the Romanesque portal and the stained glass windows, have just been restored. The Collegiate Church contains the tomb of Agnes Sorel and possibly that of Ludovico Sforza, patron of Leonardo da Vinci. After archaeological excavations in 2019 and 2021, DNA research should confirm the probabilities (90%).

This large paved artery is the Bourges shopping temple since the Belle Epoque. In the th century, urban planning works on the Middle Street and its surroundings to make it a long axis leading to Séraucourt Square. The tram is then the preferred means of transport. Looking back, you can admire art nouveau buildings built after the fire that devastated Average street in 1928. The facades and roofs of the New Galleries, where Fnac and H & M are located, and the Aubrun store are part of it, as is the old Ladies de France store (Planchat Square). All three are listed in the Additional Inventory of Historical Monuments.

Although visiting the interior of the castle is impossible for the public, discovering the exterior is already a delight, even though, from "twelve or fourteen beautiful and sumptuous towers" which were still crowning it in the fifteenth century, many of them were destroyed in the centuries destroyed. At the end of the nineteenth century, Eugène Schneider acquired the beautiful ensemble and constantly restored it, investing both its time and its means to make it one of the most striking in the region. Overlooking the village, it gives its nobility to one of the "most beautiful villages of France", a rare jewel, which is the picturesque medieval village of Apremont-sur-Allier.

It is by the Royal door that you enter the citadel (the Royal city) to visit, among other things, the Vigil, the Logis Royal, Saint-Ours collegiate college and the Lansyer house. This door dates back to the th and th centuries. It was completed in the th century by a central building and a canons terrace.

A few kilometres from Lignières, the Passing Fancies is a large property of the fifteenth century, beautifully restored. Le Pôle, owned by the General Council of Expensive, gathers one of equipment (horse race) and riding (quarries, course cross...) most of France. With more than 50 days of events annually, 7 of which meetings of races and national and international events of horse and carriage, jumps of obstacles, horse- ball and the competitions, attracting an increasing number of passionate horse and donkey but also a family public nature lovers and relaxation (rental, donkey rides cart, hiking...). It has a station of the national stud farms and the breed of Large Black donkey of Berry whose original is in Lignières. Each pentecost Monday, the fair with donkeys of Lignières attracts in the village of thousands of passionate donkeys of France. Le Pôle du Cheval and l'âne opened in June 2010 an unusual holiday village, which has a capacity of 200 beds in sedentary caravans. In July and August, walks in horse and carriage and hikes with your donkey daily on reservation.

Guided tours of the city take place in summer. Contact the Tourist Office. In the summer there are night visits in the light of the torchlight where the construction of Chartres's city will be told with force animations and almost historic reconstructions. Please contact the Tourist Office. You can also leave in the old town of Chartres with a specified course. On a rocky spur overlooking the Loir, the city is built under the shelter of the mighty castle and church of Madeleine whose oldest origins date back to the th century, and still has a Romanesque architecture of the th century. The medieval neighborhoods encircle the castle. «The old districts», as they are readily named, are the remains of the Renaissance de la Renaissance, which is saved by the fire that destroyed most of the city in 1723. Through the streets and streets, we discover a beautiful range of half-timbered houses with richly carved doors. Classical town planning is ordered around the square of 18-October -1870.

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.

A stage of the Jacques Coeur Road, the Museum des Métiers is established within the Silver Castle built in the xiiith century and has an elegant park where the promenade rhymes with pleasure, it is a beautiful domed nature drawn by the botanist and encyclopedist Duhamel of Montceau. Located just on its side, the Saint-André church, classified as a historic monument in 1944, built in the xiiith century and restored in 1892 by Octave Guérin, is pleasantly placed at the Trade Museum. Completely atypical, it proposes on three levels spaces recreating workshops of craftsmen of iron, fire and wood such as charron, cordier, blacksmith, dinandier, sabotage, sweetheart, joiner, carpenter, brass, brass, joiner, carpenters… fleurir the various traditions of architecture in France have disappeared well. This stated, a big thank you to the municipality that managed to preserve this construction coquette and its park, acquiring it in 1957, thus, by ricochet, embraced the motto of the Museum: Anyone who forgets his past is condemned to do so again. It would be wrong to forget to mention the magnificent collection of butterflies and birds in a room dedicated to Father Théophile Moreux (1867-1954), famous priest astronomer argentais.

. is also known as «La Venice verte de la Beauce». A pleasant and refreshing walk allows to bypass the vestiges of the fortifications on board an electric boat. Guaranteed emotions for small and large on these boats which sail through the moat to discover washing and bridges sometimes fairly fairly wide for the passage of the boats! Don't have any fear, everything was calculated.