Shopping tips Châteaux de la Loire

History: The Biscuiterie d'Amboise, renowned for its biscuits, with a respectful taste of a centuries-old tradition, was created in Chambord, a stone's throw from the castle, more than 30 years ago. Its pastry chefs, passionate craftsmen, scrupulously respect the practices of yesteryear by using first quality ingredients.

Products: The flagship product? Le Palet solognot, a lightly shorn butter biscuit, filled with reasons macerated in rum. Since then, the biscuit factory has been enriched with about twenty tastier references, each one more delicious than the next.

Advantages: You will find all the products available in the factory store's displays... At tasty prices!

Palaf-Mistigriff is a must for all those who love bargains. You can find everything in every field: ready-to-wear, decoration, household linen, cleaning products, beauty products, shoes... All at low prices to please yourself without breaking the bank. When it comes to clothes, once you've climbed the stairs, you simply have to take the time to look around, to try things on, and you're bound to find the rare gem at some point, including some of the big brands! A discount store is good and cities need it.

With the Barter of the Island, it is simple, you can build, in a few purchases, a new home. There's everything, absolutely everything, about 1 500 m ². It is a deposit-sale to the beneficial system and for the seller and buyer. There is bad taste (but our taste is often only disgust that we have the taste of others), inevitably, and also of real wonders. Ask what people do and where they will feed their home furniture. On the Island's Barter, some books, but little and not the best, vinyl discs, some of them rare, bicycles, ménager, trinkets. Everything, everything! You can deliver the big furniture, it will cost you about 50 €. The whole team is helpful and smiling, bravo! Note that the website showcases its stock.

More than 200 years of existence! Created by Thomas Hall, an Englishman, in the buildings of a former convent, the Faïencerie de Gien continues to exist. With the raw materials of the region, it composes all kinds of plates, salad bowls, vases, teapots, etc., for a table out of the ordinary and of all beauty, striking. Among the collections, Les Oiseaux de paradis takes us there, Toscana and Jardin du Palais transport us. Continuing to dare quality without detours, this choice has enabled it to obtain the EPV label: Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company). Gien than that!

Gardening, cultivating, tinkering… For all these activities, better equipped! Thanks to Espace Emeraude, specialized in agriculture, you won't have anything to fear from grease, mud or sweeping stains. This vast store offers professionals and amateurs a wide range of clothing, accessories and security equipment: shoes and boots, helmets, rainwear, trousers and work jackets, gloves, protective glasses… Here you can also find other quality clothing, comfortable on a daily basis (pulls, polos, jackets).

More than 100 exhibitors in the gardens. Find out about the castle.

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There is everything, absolutely everything. You have to come wander between the aisles where you discover, mêle, crusts of unknown painters, Art deco lamps, an old bed, a buffet with wood skated, an old sewing machine… In short, it's the charming bric, where you sometimes make a good deal.

Here you do not make copies, contrary to what the name of the shop might imply. Everything is used and sometimes almost nine (buying error or whim). Women's clothing, accessories and footwear only.

Shop Vintage focuses on the recycling of clothing in order to take part in sustainable development and consume differently. The clothes, leather goods and accessories are selected from suppliers all over Europe and the USA, and cover a wide period from the 1940s to the 1990s. Oversized sweaters, pin-up dresses, patterned shirts, denim jackets, retro coats, men and women find something to fill their wardrobe. The store is also carefully curated by Dalila, who will be happy to advise you if needed.

The Biscuiterie de Chambord, is made with quality raw materials and prepared according to traditional methods. In addition to the unavoidable Palet Solognot, a shortbread cookie with raisins, there is now a wide range of products, cakes, sugar-free, organic or gluten-free cookies, honey cakes, which are sold in a dozen outlets such as Chambord and Muides-sur-Loire, Orléans, Tours, Azay-le-Rideau, Amboise and Saint-Aignan

Palaf'Sold is full of products of all kinds (glasses, shoes, watches, bags, belts, men's clothing, women, children, lingerie, beauty products, small furniture, kitchen and bathroom accessories, toys, seeds, small appliances, very much all-all), often branded as Palaf buys unsold, stock, stores, etc. bankruptcy… All this suits us well because that's how we offer an RWD jeans at 25 € instead of € 120, a Babyliss Épilateur at 35 € instead of € 90, a guêpière/porte Chantal Tomas at € 15 instead of € 130, etc. Even during peak times, it's a real happiness to come into the shelves.

Mathilde chose a soft name to open her trendy and responsible ready-to-wear boutique. We are far from the classic thrift store, a particular attention has been paid to the furnishing and decoration, with a powder pink on the walls that offers a chic and soothing atmosphere. On the hangers, we find unique, vintage pieces, made in France and with noble materials. Not to mention the accessories, belts and bags. At Aimée, you can indulge yourself while respecting the environment and the human being.