2:30 p.m.
Meet with our guide at the Tourist Office of Loches for a guided tour of LOCHES. A walking tour in this fortified medieval city located on the banks of the Indre river: The Cordeliers. gate XVth c, then, along the pedestrian streets, the St. Antoine tower, the Picois gate, XVth c built next to the Town Hall, the graceful Renaissance buildings with their balconies decked out with flowers; the "Chancellerie" house; the Royal Gate.

Guided tour of the CHATEAU, ROYAL RESIDENCE partly built during the XIVth and XVth centuries and completed when the Renaissance style of architecture appeared. Joan of Arc, Agnes Sorel (mistress of King Charles VII), Anne de Bretagne lived there. Magnificent view of the City of Loches and Indre river Valley. Guided tour of the keep, built by Foulques Nerra during the XIth c. 36 meters high, it is considered as the most impressive keep built in the Romanesque style of architecture and turned into a prison by King Louis the XIth. Explanations about the everyday life in a keep during the Middle ages , life in State prisons starting from the XVth c. You will discover the cage where the Cardinal La Balue was imprisoned, and the Martelet, cell of the famous prisoner Ludovic Sforza, Duke of Milan, who attempted to paint Italian style frescoes on the cold walls.