Guided tours
Guided tour "Discovery of the Fortress"
Students discover the fortress through the highlights of its history and its key figures.
- Audience: Study cycle 2 - Study cycle 3 - Middle and High school
- Duration: 1h (allow an extra 1 hour for the self-guided tour of the royal dwellings and towers)
- Price: €1.50 per student (entrance fee included)
Indre-et-Loire middle schools: free
Guided tour "The Little Visit" (only in french)
The Little Visit takes you on a recreational and sensorial discovery.
What is the purpose of a castle? Who lives there? Follow the guide, who will answer all the questions that children have!
- Audience: Study cycle 1 (GS) - Study cycle 2 (CP, CE1)
- Duration: 40 minutes (allow an extra 1 hour for the self-guided tour of the royal dwellings and towers)
- Price: €4 per pupil (including entrance fee).
Guided tour "à la carte" (only in French)
After a discovery of the history of the Fortress, the students will explore one or two specific themes chosen by their teacher:
- Plantagenets;
- The Hundred Years' War;
- Joan of Arc.
- Audience: Study cycle 2 - Study cycle 3 - Middle and High School
- Duration: 1h15 (allow an extra 1 hour for the self-guided tour of the royal dwellings and towers)
- Price: €4 per pupil (including entrance fees).
Guided tour “Les Plantagenêts”
The tour looks at the history of the Plantagenets through their buildings in Chinon, as well as certain aspects of daily life at the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II: nomadism, travel and oriental influences, furniture and food at the court in the 12th century. Fun and interactive, the tour takes place outdoors and in the reconstructed areas of the royal lodgings in the fortress of Chinon.
- Audience: Middle and High school
- Duration: 1h15 (allow an extra 1 hour for the self-guided tour of the royal dwellings and towers)
- Price: €4 per pupil (including entrance fees).
Guided tour "The legend of King Arthur" (only in french)
Between legend and history, discover one of the greatest literary successes of the Middle Ages: its origins, its important characters, its evolution... A whole novel!
- Audience: Study cycle 3 (6th) - Study cycle 4 (5° and 4th)
- Duration: 1h (allow an extra 1 hour for the self-guided tour of the royal dwellings and towers)
- Price: €4 per pupil (including entrance fee).