Visits

The outside visit
INDIVIDUELS

May 1st to June 30th: saturdays, sundays and holidays 10am - 12.30am et 02pm - 07pm
July 1st to August 31st: everyday except monday 10am - 07pm
September 1st to 1st sunday of October: everyday except monday 10am - 12.30am and 2pm - 6pm

Rate 7,50 Euros.
Free for children under 16who are with adults


GROUPES

guided visits on rdv the all year (french, english)

1.Visit park and gardens
Rate: 6,50 Euros.

2.Visit of the cellar
Rate : 6,50 Euros.

3.Visit of the park, the gardens and the cellar
Rate : 11 Euros

Minimum 20 persons


Free visit of the parks and gardens. All year on RDV.
Minimum 20 persons.
Rate: 6,50 Euros.

Groupes less than 20 persons : 7,50 € by person.
The park and gardens of the Château de Valmer spread out in an outstanding site overlooking the valley of the Brenne. Arranged along two major axes, the gardens follow the gradients of the hillside. Their creator skifully turned to good account the slope of a spur between two valleys. This succession of levels organised and punctuated by balustrades with brick arcades is reminiscent of Renaissace Italian villas.
At the end of a majestic alley of chesnut trees planted in two rows, there opens the half Moon and the iron railings of the Entrance porch. The Terrace of the Foreground, a forecourt lined with three outbuildings, leads to the bridge overstepping the moat.
The TTerrace with the Florentine fountains is enlivened in the month of March with the perfumed flowering of Clematis Armandii , followed by the 100-year old arborescent peonies. Then arrive the wisterias, the Pierre de Ronsard roses, whereupon the prolific annuals take over (pink and white tobacco plants, blue sage, dahlias, anthemis, cleome, busy-lizy). Two impressive Sophora japonica cv.pendula, frame the view and droop their branches into the depth of the moats, covered in bunches of white flowers during exceptionally hot summers.
The troglodytic chapel opens out on the right in the big wall, under a statue of Saint Roch, Master Jean Binet, Mayor of the Palace for the King and Queen of Navarre, had it hollowed in the tufa in 1524, that is more than a century before the construction of the High Terrace. It was blessed on november 28, 1529 by Nicolas Hurault, the bishop of Autun, and consacred on march 13, 1535. The chapel comprises two naves of unequal width, each with two bays, vaulted over lowered intersected ribs. The main nave is extended by a tiny sanctuary that accomodates the altar where the tomb is decorated with a triptych altar-piece representing a Pieta surrounded by instruments of the Passion of Christ and two worthy individuals with their coats of arms : on the left is the donor jean Bernard, Bishop of Tours from 1441 to 1446, and on the right is nephew Guy.
two lateral chapels are embellished with an altar in polychromatic wood, and a Roman baptismal font. Two 16th century stain-glass windows depict the curing of a person possessed and the miracle of the spider.
The main castle was destroyed by fire on october 1948; only the base and the two perrons remain. In the near future, yew trees trimmed in rectangular shape, with their "windows" over looking the garden, willrestore the volume of the château that that has disappeared.
The petit Valmer, built in 1565, is a fine example of the Architecture of the period, with its sober lines and its elegant big stone dormer windows.