List of historic sites in the Beauce

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.

BOUVILLE

Moulin à vent Pelard

Discovery and learning about a pivoting windmill, built in wood in the typical Beauce style.

LA FERTE-VILLENEUIL

Ecomusée de la vallée de l'Aigre

CLOYES-SUR-LE-LOIR

Chapelle romane Notre-Dame d'Yron

Small chapel with remarkable Romanesque mural frescos dating back to the 12th and 16th centuries. It was from here that, in 1212, Estinennes de Cloyes departed to the Holy Land at the head of the Children's Crusade.