= Tourist Info =

The visitor, from the town of Amboise, have the opportunity to enjoy an agreable stay combining all pleasures : from castles to cathedrals, from villages to vignards. Culture, gastronomy, nature of the Centre Val-de-Loire, a region where the mildness of the climat is according to the mildness of the art of living in a protected way.

Some open air activities...

• Amboise :
  Mini-Châteaux, Aquarium de Touraine.
• The Golden Island, at Amboise :
  Swimming pool, tennis yards, canoe and kayak, health routes.
• Some distances :
  Horse riding (10 kms), Golf links (25 kms), Helicopter or Balloon over the Castles...

Some of the Val-de-Loire main castles... within a radius of 50 km...

Amboise : Cradle of Renaissance, constructed at the location of an old feudal stonghold. It was one of first Royal Residences. Impressioning front of the Loire rivebank from where you enjoy an exceptional view on the town and on the river, and on the Saint-Hubert Chapel, an architectural jewel.

Azay-le-Rideau : According to BALZAC "Cut in facets like a diamond set in the Indre river, constucted on piling". One of the most remarcable buildings of early Renaissance, constructed on its water mirror. Highly interesting tapestry and furniture.

Chambord : In the middle of the game-rich forest of 550 ha, the most Extravagant, the most Majetic of all castles ; A pure Renaissance Wonder : 128 m of façade,
440 rooms, 80 staircases, 365 fire places... It illustrates the Splendour of the reign of François 1.

Chaumont : A combinaison of the late Gothic period and Renaissance influence. Park with rare trees. Every summer, an International Garden Festival where the world's best landscape gardeners come to create thirty original gardens in the castle's park.

Chenonceau : At the end of a long drive lined with trees, a Romantic and Elegant castle constructed at the Cher river bank, where Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Médicis once lived. Somptuous decoration, furniture, Flemish tapestry and pictures. Magnificent big Gallery pierced by eighteen windows with a view of the Cher river.

Cheverny : "Noble and magnificent residence" according to La Saussaye. It is one of the most accomplished examples of Louis XIII style architecture. A Superbe restauration of intern decoration and furniture. An estate with kennels for a pack of seventy dogs.

Clos Lucé : In Amboise. A spectacular smal Manor House, Residence of Leonardo da Vinci, invited by François 1. He lived there during the last three years of his life. In the basement you find forty "Fabulous Machines" invented by the Maestro and reconstituted by IBM.

Villandry and its gardens : Harmoniously created between stone and living nature. One of the last great Renaissance buildings constructed at the Loire banks. Unparalleled Renaissance Gardens in Europe, reconstructed in the early 20th century by Joachim CARVALLO : Decorative vegetable garden, Romantic flower Garden,...

Some Loire Vignards... within a radius of 70 kms :
Amboise, Vouvray, Montlouis, Bourgueil, Chinon...

From LA BRECHE, ACCO-DISPO organizes touristic routes for you.