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250 KM FROM PARIS, CONTENTS 2h30 by train from Paris-Austerlitz station SITES TO DISCOVER P.4 NOT TO BE MISSED MUSEUMS CASTLES PARIS NATURAL SITES TOURS OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES RELIGIOUS HERITAGE LEISURE AND RELAXATION P.12 WALKING CYCLING HORSE-RIDING SWIMMING PICNIC AREAS WITH FACILITIES CRAFT INDUSTRY AND GASTRONOMY P.16 CAPTION WELCOME SHOPS AND CRAFT Sancerre TO GEORGE SAND COUNTRY IN THE BERRY PROVINCE MARKETS AND FARM PRODUCE Vierzon Valençay Bourges PRATICAL INFORMATION P.18 CONTENTS Issoudun Châteauroux Saint-Amand- Montrond La Brenne La Châtre Pays de George Sand CAPTION Site linked to George Sand Museum of France A quality welcome in Nohant House of « Jour De Fête » Country Remarkable garden Sensitive natural spaces LA CHÂTRE CENTRAL TOURIST INFORMATION BUREAU Tél. 02.54.48.22.64 - Fax 02.54.06.09.15 [email protected] Tourist information point What you have done ! www.pays-george-sand.com 134 Rue Nationale - GPS : N 46.58114° / E 001.98675° Création : www.madreamteam.com - Crédits photo CDT 36 – Lancosme Multimédia J.Rapegno/ Le Berry Républicain G. Lefauconnier J. Perrier V. Dromer. MAP AND CAPTION INTRODUCTION ISSOUDUN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND VISITS Ardentes CHÂTEAUROUX Welcome to George Sand PARIS Country St-Août Lignières Castel Take a break in this land of traditions, Site of George Sand tales and legends, dear to George Sand, the kind godmother of the Religious heritage LIGNIÈRES Berry region. Like a real travel book, this guide will show you the heritage, The devil’s pool Museum BOURGES leisure activities, arts and crafts St-Christophe- and gastronomy which make up the Museum of France en-Boucherie richness of this hilly country. Located Mers-sur-Indre Monument listed as a UNESCO between the Paris basin and the first La Berthenoux world heritage site Corlay foothills of the Auvergne, the south- St-Chartier eastern portion of the department Intérieur Verneuil-sur-Igneraie House of « Jour de Fête » Berrichon of Indre offers a perfect geological Montipouret Musée des Racines Lys-St-Georges Vic George Sand’s house and architectural diversity. Villages give a lively touch to small Sensitive natural spaces Thevet-St-Julien Tranzault valleys and light up the hedged farmland with their roofs and bell Nohant Vicq- towers. View point LIMOGES Lourouer- Exemplet St-Laurent POITIERS Angibault Mill Exceptional natural site George Sand, « the good lady of Nohant », liked to call it « The Montgivray Sarzay Black Valley »: « ...all the uplands are wooded; that’s what gives our CAPTION NEUVY-SAINT-SÉPULCRE background this lovely bluish colour which becomes purple and Ars George Sand's Museum nearly black on stormy days ». Upon the different stages of your and the Black Valley Varennes Lacs stay, you will find the remembrance of this committed women cistercian AND SPORT AND LEISURE Gournay abbey LA CHÂTRE thanks to the many sites which served as settings in her novels. Montlevicq CULAN / MONTLUCON Golf course CLERMONT-FERRAND INTRODUCTION Le Magny Néret « if you come round, bon voyage! if you stay, good for you! » Fougerolles MAP Riding School Châteaumeillant Mouhers Briantes Champillet Bungee jumping Chassignolles La Motte-Feuilly Urciers Maison des Traditions Swimmingpool-Bathing Cluis Cluis-Dessous St-Denis- The Auzon Pouligny- Tourist fishing trail Viaduc fortress de-Jouhet St-Martin Gargilesse- Lake fishing Dampierre Feusines House of «Jour de Fête» Gazeau Tower Lignerolles La Buxerette Pouligny-Notre-Dame Crozon- SAINTE-SÉVÈRE- Crevant TRAILS sur-Vauvre SUR-INDRE Montchevrier Tour by car Balnéo Perassay Heart of France vineyard trail Parelles’ Parc Vigoulant AIGURANDE Vijon INFORMATION Sazeray Information point LA SOUTERRAINE GUÉRET BOUSSAC Church of Saint Anne in Nohant NOT TO BE MISSED MUSEUMS January to GEORGE SAND’S HOUSE MAISON DES TRADITIONS Easter to December NOHANT - OUTSTANDING GARDEN CHASSIGNOLLES Halloween except the 02.54.48.00.57 01/01, 01/05, A refuge and a source of inspiration. George Sand grew The village of Chassignolles, from yesterday til today, is 01/11, 11/11 up here and it is where she wrote most of her work: described by the British writer Gillian Tindall in his book www.lamaison destraditions.org and 25/12 La petite Fadette, La Mare au Diable, and so on. Many entitled « Celestine: voices from a French Village ». This 02.54.31.06.04 famous guests came to work here including Liszt, Balzac, chronicle of a village will lead you into the Chassignolles maison- of the 19th century, at the doorstep of the Industrial Era. traditions@ www.monuments- Chopin, Flaubert, Delacroix, and others. The traditional farm from « Boischaut Sud » encounters the wanadoo.fr nationaux.fr A delightful garden. The garden laid out around the peasants’ lifestyle in the past century. The peasants’ labour N 46.54147° N 46.62544° house shows how attached George Sand was to nature. and their daily life are to be discovered on an exhibition E 001.93903° E 001.97542° It includes a vegetable garden, rose garden, orchard meadow, Romantic park and the family cemetery where space of over 1000 square metres through the re-creation she was buried. of the cooper, blacksmith, clog maker’s workshops. The museum also owns a fine set of agricultural machines which shows the development of land practices in the 19th and 20th centuries. ANGIBAULT MILL Easter to MONTIPOURET DISCOVER DISCOVER Halloween - tuesday to It’s countryside setting includes a seven hectare meadow, sunday TO TO through which runs the Vauvre. This river, which flows into 02.54.31.11.46 the Indre, feeds the millstream which turns the mill’s water wheel. Inside, you can see the whole mechanism lovingly www.moulin- angibault.fr THE COMICAL WORLD restored, as well as an 02.54.30.21.78 SITES SITES exhibition on the life of a moulin- www.maisonde OF JACQUES TATI miller. This is the actual mill angibault@ jourdefete.com HOUSE OF « JOUR DE FÊTE » IN SAINTE-SÉVÈRE-SUR-INDRE where George Sand’s novel orange.fr contact@ Le Meunier d’Angibault(1) is N 46.62483° This house takes you back in 1947 to the village of maisondejour set. Activities, picnic area, E 001.90728° Sainte-Sévère, transformed at the time by the arrival of a defete.com excellent fishing, hall and film crew for the shooting of « Jour de Fête » by Jacques N 46.48569° facilities for country fairs. Tati. Visitors will go over the event through the look of a E 002.06972° child who retained the shooting memories by filming them with a coffee mill. To be seen with family, 3D projections, film set, sounds, special effects! 70 minutes of laughter and thrills. GEORGE Sand’s MUSEUM February to AND THE BLACK VALLEY December 31st Guided tours LA CHÂTRE on request. Former feudal castle of the Chauvigny family, built in the 15th century, this three-storeyed square keep is now the home of the 02.54.48.36.79 « George Sand and the Black Valley » museum www.musee- > Permanent exhibition on George Sand showing the work and george-sand.fr political commitment of this writer. musee. > Exhibition of traditional local artefacts : headdresses, paintings georgesand of landscape. @wanadoo.fr > Collection of some 3 000 stuffed birds from around the world. N 46.58192° 4 5 Audioguide available in French and English. E 001.98994° (1) The Miller of Angibault do not forget do not forget May to MUSÉE DES RACINES MONTGIVRAY CASTLE Only the September THEVET ST JULIEN MONTGIVRAY grounds of the castle are open 02.54.30.05.91 Roots, branches, stumps - sculptures made by Mother Nature to The castle was previously the property of Hippolyte Chatiron, George 02.54.06.10.36 N 46.63761° which Abbé Aymon, priest at Thevet Saint Julien from 1941 to Sand’s half brother, and then of Solange Sand, her daughter. E 002.06906° 1987, gave life. CLUIS MANOR 02.54.31.21.06 INTÉRIEUR BERRICHON CLUIS June to Sept. - N 46.54433° th th wed. to sun. LYS ST GEORGES This manor house dating from 15 and 17 centuries, which is E 001.74861° 02.54.30.81.55 The former castle gardener’s cottage houses a re-created local now the Town Hall, has carved wooden panelling, four Aubusson interior from the end of the 19th century. tapestries from the 18th century, and a wooden fireplace dating N 46.64203° from the reign of Louis XIII (17th). E 001.82378° CLUIS-DESSOUS FORTRESS Air theatre CASTLES CLUIS every 2 years - This fortress dating from the 12th and 15th centuries includes a free visit All year round SARZAY fortified entrance made up of the remains of a drawbridge with 02.54.31.22.13 towers on either side. 02.54.31.32.25 CASTLE www.cluis.fr SARZAY N 46.54433° www.sarzay.com Ancient feudal fortress dating E 001.74861° sarzay@ from the 14th and 15th centuries, DISCOVER DISCOVER wanadoo.fr Guided tours Sarzay appears as if by magic NATURAL SITES on request. N 46.60000° on a bend in the road. From TO TO E 001.90547° under the superb roof structure THE DEVIL’S POOL Except during the at the top of its towers, you MERS SUR INDRE hunting season can see the surrounding La Mare au Diable (3), one of George Sand’s most famous novels, 02.54.31.06.52 countryside of the ‘Black Valley’. SITES SITES « a little chef d’oeuvre », as Sainte Beuve called it. Guided tours (1) N 46.68462° George Sand’s novel Le Meunier d’Angibault is set here. on request. E 001.87094° LE PETIT June to Sept. PARELLES’ All year round 02.54.31.08.64 COUDRAY PARC 02.54.06.38.07 VERNEUIL SUR IGNERAIE CREVANT www.chateau o.t-aigurande@ Fortified manor house dating A natural site which inspired ducoudray.com th wanadoo.fr from the 14 century, one of George Sand : chateaudu its facades was remodelled in N 46.45931° « ..