List of historic sites in Chateaudun and haute vallee du Loir

ILLIERS-COMBRAY

Le Pré Catelan

Swann Park on the banks of the Loir, designed by Proust's uncle, is a place charged with romance and atmosphere. Based on the informal style garden, it made a profound mark on the author.

ILLIERS-COMBRAY

Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust

Visit the fully-furnished family house of Tante Léonie, where Marcel Proust used to come and spend his holidays. Provincial and exotic charm. The cradle of Proust's work.

CHATILLON-EN-DUNOIS

Eglise de Châtillon-en-Dunois

A magnificent 12th-century stone church mingling Romanesque, flamboyant Gothic and classical styles without losing any of its harmony. Remarkable murals, beams, lecterns and retables. Keys available at the town hall.

ILLIERS-COMBRAY

Visite de ville d'Illiers-Combray

Visit Iliers sur le Loir, the Combray in the works of Marcel Proust, renamed Illiers-Combray as a tribute to the artist's work.

CHATEAUDUN

Château de Châteaudun

Vertiginous medieval tower 60 metres tall, overlooking the Loir river. A lord's lodge in the pure flamboyant gothic style built by a companion of Joan of Ark. Discovery of medieval cuisine.

CHATEAUDUN

Musée des beaux-arts et d'histoire naturelle

CHATEAUDUN

Grottes du foulon

An underground attraction covering more than a hectare beneath the town of Châteaudun, explore this natural cellar formed in the limestone and discover the diversity of this subterranean world: galleries, pillars, giant pots... At the end of the tour the caves are illuminated in vibrant colour.

MONTIGNY-LE-GANNELON

Château de Montigny-le-Gannelon

Set on the border of the Beauce and Perche regions, in a 15-hectare park, the Renaissance castle of Montigny-le-Gannelon shows off its silhouette on the heights of the Loir Valley.

COURTALAIN

Château de Courtalain

This castle combines medieval, Renaissance and neo-gothic architecture in a magnificent informal garden of 200 hectares which can be visited.

OZOIR-LE-BREUIL

Moulin à vent de Frouville Pensier

A lighthouse in the ocean of wheat in the Beauce of Zola! The last stone windmill in Eure-et-Loir still operational.