Travel Guide Challain-La-Potherie

Far from the Loire and its castles, we will tell you! 40 km from Angers, on the road to Rennes, lost in the blue Anjou countryside between Candésur and Segré, the small municipality of Challain-la-Potherie - 850 inhabitants - deserves a detour. She also has a castle in her heritage. And not least! A beautiful castle of it Gothic style, built in the th century by architect René Hodé and nicknamed the "Chambord angevin" (detailed description in the chapter "The Lion of Angers"). The owners - American - will be happy to welcome you. Maybe even decide to sleep there. And leaving in the corner, also take a turn on the side of this atypical art gallery "in the countryside". Open Eyes Art Gallery settled in a former presbytery. She continually presents the works by Louis Harel and Poncaral, two painters who define lyrical abstraction. The gallery is open every afternoon, from Friday to Sunday.