Chateaux & Gardens

With the 72-hour Loire à Vélo Pass, choose your route between Tours and Orléans and take advantage of over 50 exclusive offers. On the programme: châteaux, gardens, guinguettes, vineyards, listed villages and much more! The 72h Pass also entitles you to a host of benefits and discounts on leisure activities (e.g. 10% discount on a treasure hunt in Orléans, free breakfast in a hotel, 10% discount on a half-day canoeing trip, 10% discount at a wine shop, etc.).

The Château de Villandry is a unique example of Renaissance architecture and gardens. Six sumptuous gardens await you: the vegetable garden, the ornamental garden, the water garden, the medicinal plant garden, the labyrinth and the sun garden.

In a preserved setting, 20 minutes from Tours, the Domaine de Candé takes you on a tour of a unique château in Touraine. The place of the wedding of the century, residence of great fortunes from the 1930s to the 1970s, it presents a tour of 20 fully furnished rooms, decorations in Cordoba leather or Touraine silks, bathrooms in glass mosaics, a Skinner organ on 3 floors, 1,000 m² of wine storehouses equipped with the latest presses, a Bell telephone exchange, a fitness room with equipment equivalent to that on the Titanic... The 230-hectare park with its century-old trees offers 2 hiking trails, contemporary artworks and atypical games. Don't hesitate to take a picnic with you!

Pick up your bike in one of the 4 ‘stopover towns’ - Tours, Amboise, Blois and Orléans - and get on with your youth! The first of its kind in France, this Pass allows you to discover the riches of the Loire à Vélo at your own pace and in complete simplicity. It includes bike hire, lunches and snacks, Loire Valley wine tastings, as well as visits to museums and some of the Loire's greatest châteaux: Villandry, Amboise, Azay-le-Rideau, Chenonceau, Chaumont, Chambord, Langeais... You'll also benefit from preferential rates at major sites, restaurants, hotels, wineries, food outlets and leisure activities. Suggested itinerary from Tours: Pick up your bike in Tours and pick up your picnic at the Fourchette Paysanne before setting off to visit the Prieuré Saint-Cosme along the Loire. You can then cross the river for a wine-tasting stop and a visit to the troglodytic cellars at the Grandes Caves Saint Roch in Rochecorbon or the Cave des Producteurs in Vouvray. On your return to Tours, round off your day in style with a visit to the CCC OD or a gourmet stop-off at the Les Fromages de Camille shop.