This cultural-year highlight is an opportunity to spend this weekend visiting an endless variety of well-known (but usually off-bounds) and outright unusual historical monuments.
Whilst Château La Guerche is open throughout the year, today there were special guided visits arranged and at a reduced rate to encourage participation.
We arrived in pouring rain and walked up through the grounds to the Château's entrance, where fortunately a visit was just departing. Luckily our party was small - four people including us - so at least we could ask questions or ask for clarification if we didn't understand the fast speaking French guide.
After a hurried account of the architecture we went into the vaulted chambers of the château's cellar.
For a more detailed account of the Château please look here
We were limited to taking photos of only the cellar and outside the building but there are more photos on the linked site (above)
Some of the sculpted dogs at the entrance to the lower floor
Les casemates d’artillerie
Beautifully landscaped gardens...
......Hard to appreciate fully in the rain!
Unfamiliar views of the Chateau..
Tomorrow we hope to take the opportunity to see one of the places not normally open to the public.
