Things to see and do Berry

The Stuarts Castle has the privilege of building in our memory an architectural meeting dating from the Renaissance. It was built by Robert Stuart, the first captain of the Scottish guard and lord of Aubigny from 1508 to 1540, which was widely illustrated during the Italian campaigns. A part is now dedicated to the city hall. Not to mention the Auld-Alliance Memorial, which thus perpetuates the sealed pact between the kingdoms of France and Scotland. You can also admire the tapestries of Aubusson by Louis XIV in Louise de Keroualle. Restorations took place since, especially the south wing at the end of the nineteenth century. It has been classified as Historic Monument since 1862, thank you certainly Mérimée!

Crime at the castle: August 25, 2018

Fun animation during which participants will have to lift the veil on a murder!

Full fare 20 €, reduced rate 16 €.

The Sancerrois tourist office offers you the opportunity to discover all the specialties of the region. Best white wines through the famous Chavignol crotches. Culinary delights are not the only pride in this corner of the Cher. Cycling tours along the Loire or hiking in the vineyards will delight the athletes… and the others! The charming welcome makes us want to extend our stay in Sancerrois. Nice boutique of regional products and beautiful works on the region.

Victorine House offers a journey over time, discovering Aubigny. The annual exhibitions present souvenirs and objects gathered by the fans of the city's contemporary history. Every year a carefully chosen research theme allows you to trace the life of the city a while ago. It's all the more so because the proximity trade is going on in this albino land, which adds to the charm of the proposed themes! Documents, objects, various anecdotes, songs, postcards, photos plunge us into the memory of Aubigny, the Franco-Scottish, ensuring every year an exhibition in the authentic context of a house of the sixteenth century.

Built in the thirteenth century, then restored and enlarged at the end of the xve and early sixteenth century, this church dedicated to Saint Martin de Tours has unsuspected riches. In addition to its richly decorated nef, the impressive building has a set of fine, polychrome statues for many of them. The church also displays epitaphes of the late sixteenth century as well as paintings painted somewhat singular where pastel is referred to. The retable of the sixteenth century evoking a Tomb and a Virgin of Pity of the seventeenth century are upsetting, and these carved woods question whether or they are not neophyte. Good example of a hidden richness of this enchanting Sologne.

Some beautiful streets and beautiful buildings help to remember the rich past of the city. In the Grande-Rue, there are a number of wood-paneled houses with, sometimes, staircases and wooden galleries. Located in a shopping district, these houses had all the shops on the street and some preserved their nineteenth-century wooden storyfronts. See also Saint Vincent Street, bordered by the seventeenth century bourgeois houses and the astonishing gurgling gurgling from the angle of the wall to No. 18. Close to a pretty little square planted with trees, we discover the church Saint-Etienne, a former collegial church built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and renovated in the xve.

The museum is located in an ancient house, just next to the one where the great adventurer died. Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974) was an adventurer, writer (70 novels) and a painter: he is a figure to discover! The museum presents watercolours and personal memories of the writer. Video mounts also present their multiple journeys.

The Saint Martin Church in Prissac has enjoyed a complete renovation. It's a modest building, two neves. The bell tower dates from the twelfth century, but most of the church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century. It has beautiful wall paintings from the end of the Middle Ages. There is the representation of Saint Catherine, a martyr of Saint Andrew and one of Saint Sebastian. In the chapel, the «Say of the Three Dead and Three Vifs» is staged, near the representation of the four evangelists. Parts are missing, but a leaflet is available in the church and the site provides very complete explanations. In statute, one notes a saint Martin in wood and a saint Radegonde stone.

The Wheat Halle was once an important place for local trade, especially grain. This beautiful building belonged to the prince of Talleyrand before being bought by the city of Valençay. The roof roof and the ground floor were then replaced a new construction, the one you can observe now. Red bricks and white tuffwater give a lot of character to this hall located in the small village of Valençay. For more information, please do not hesitate to follow the tour 'Talleyrand' proposed by the Tourist Office. To your agendas: every Tuesday morning, market day.

This museum tells all Brenne. It offers a superb collection of over 800 birds of all sizes and presents life in the old Brenne. It contains geological studies of a region's prehistorian and models of rural houses. The presentation of metallurgical activity, from the Gallic era to the large forges, is very pedagogical (animated model). It describes the system of ponds and the activities of this wetland. Admire the great model of the Naillac castle, as it should be in the xve century. And enjoy the view of the city. Temporary exhibition from July to September.

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.

The Pont-Vieux has existed since the beginning of the town's construction, at the foot of the fortress, hence its name as «bridge-old». In the eighteenth century houses and shops of one or more floors were installed on the bridge itself (a panonceau at its foot reproduced a vision of that era). Today, the view is very picturesque on the mills and their pavements. The bridge is surrounded by old wooden houses that are reflected in Creuse.

Enjoy the bridge, only, between friends or in love, and why not walk on the Creuse edges. The mill has lost its wheels but retains a certain charm, and it is rightly a subject of choice for painters and photographers.

Please note: a very pleasant welcome and wise advice! The establishment has become an information office.

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.

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.

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.

The Hotel des Échevins was built in 1489, on a space "released" by the great fire of 1487. He draws on the Gallo-Roman wall of Bourges. It is an essential monument to the city. At night during Night Nights it offers a magical setting to the projections on its stone walls. A rectangular rectangular body includes on the ground floor the large hall equipped with a monumental fireplace and the board of the jury vaulted stone and the fire test. The Hotel des Échevins was the headquarters of the municipality for three centuries. Its interior is just as interesting as its walls. Many sculpted decorations celebrate Berry's sheep, whose wool was so important to the city's wealth and influence. This Gothic style building was influenced by the decoration of the Jacques Coeur Palace: arches in accolade, pinacles, frayed cabbage. The false windows of sculpted characters adorning the octagonal tower will be delighted: These are sergeants of town that go to the pass. Admiring them will entertain children. In 1624, a new gallery body inspired by the Renaissance architecture treaties was added to the existing building. The Hotel des Échevins has been completely restored. It was built in a museum and now offers visitors to discover the works of the painter Maurice Estève, from Culan.

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.

The water tower was built in 1865 to collect the waters of the Auron, supervised by engineer Bourdaloue. A competition was organized to select the architect of the imposing fountain located in: it is Albert Tissandier's project - bricks and stones, and paying tribute to the classical architecture of the early eighteenth century - which was chosen. As for the sculpted decoration, it is the work of the Berrichon archeologist and sculptor Jules Dumoutet. Unaffected since 1940, inscribed in the additional inventory of Historic Monuments in 1975, the eau d 'eau was completely redesigned by the City of Bourges in 1999, which made it a place dedicated to the diffusion of plastic arts. The ground floor of 220 m ², with its two concentric spreads separated by 16 columns and surrounded by 14 alveoli, allows a unique presentation of the works, whether painted, carved, engraved, drawn, projected or hammered. A place of discovery, exchanges and meetings, the water tower hosts carefully selected exhibitions. A successful conversion.