Public Park
Set foot into a public park, created as the 20th century came around, imagined like a 19th-century botanic garden. This English-style park abounds in remarkable trees, hosts of flowerbeds, several water features and a bandstand. It offers an outstanding panorama over the Royal City and the district of Saint Ours.
Free access
Saint Louis Garden
A delightful little garden, located on the south side of Saint Ours Collegiate Church, offers a panoramic vista over the Indre Valley and Beaulieu-lès-Loches. A wisteria pergola and square-shaped flowerbeds reminiscent of monastic gardens burst with vibrant colours as soon as springtime arrives.
Free access
Avenue Philippe Auguste
Weave your way along this troglodyte-dwelling-lined pedestrian avenue under the shade of impressive ramparts fringed by grassy areas and groves.
Free access
Agnès Sorel Garden
This small romantic-style garden will catch your eye as soon as you step over the threshold of the Lansyer Museum. This little garden, set along the wall, bubbling over with exotic shrubs, beds of perennial flowers and climbing roses, whisks you off on a journey. It also invites to delight in a charming vista over the lower town.
Free access during museum opening times
Baschet Park
Before you reach the visiting areas of Loches Keep, you'll stroll through an English-style park laid out across the ramparts. Century-old trees offer coolness on warm days and peacefulness.
A wonderfully-soothing space set in the shade of the 37-metre-high main tower.
Free access during keep opening times
Promenade de la Nouvelle Alliance Saint-Andrew
To enjoy a delightful stroll along the waterside, take the flight of steps down to the banks of the Indre from the bridge linking the centre town to the train station. Discover amazing views over the historic heart of Loches as you wander along these willow-lined banks.
Free access
Loches Keep's Medieval Garden
The 700 m2 of the medieval garden are protected by the keep and the ramparts. A first garden, featuring a mulberry tree in the middle, is set off with benches covered by a vine- and hop-strewn pergola. The second section boasts eight square beds filled with medicinal plants and ancient varieties of vegetables surrounded by fruit trees trellised along the walls
Included in the monument admission ticket
Prairies du Roy
The meadows between Loches and Beaulieu-lès-Loches invite to delight in a bucolic stroll. Interpretation panels on flora and fauna are interspersed along the route of this 350-hectare Sensitive Natural Site.
Free access
