Historic Sites & Monuments

It was from this chapel that the Children's Crusade set out in 1212, headed by shepherd boy Estienne de Cloyes. The legend says that 20,000 children left for the Holy Land and never returned...

The Château de Moléans is a physical textbook of French architectural history... Tours of the exterior.

Enter the "secret gardens" of the Sun King. Discover the furnished home of Madame de Maintenon, whose eternal youth charmed Louis XIV the all-powerful.

The fortified complex was built in the 12th century by Hugh II of Châteauneuf, lord of Thymerais, as an outpost of the Capetian royal estate to defend against the Duchy of Normandy.

The Abbey of Thiron-Gardais was the mother abbey of one of the largest monastic orders of the middle ages, the Order of Tiron. Soak up the atmosphere of one of the great centres of medieval spirituality, with its themed gardens and tithe barn.

Parc de Champ Romain: French-style formla gardens, with staggered rows of very rare lime trees. Calcareous grasslands, listed by the DRAC (regional cultural affairs directorate).