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Saumur

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  • A day in Saumur

    Saumur, Pays de la Loire, France

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    Bucket List Experience

    A postcard-perfect, medieval town famed for its troglodyte wine cellars (filled with excellent wines) and majestic hilltop chateau.

    Best for ages: 18+ | Free

  • Outside low angle view of the front building and entrance on a summer's blue day
    Experience

    Royal Abbey of Fontevraud

    Saumur, Pays de la Loire, France

    Travel back to the Middle Ages in this vast monastic complex and splendid Romanesque church. It’s home to the sculpted tombs of Henry II of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart.

    Best for ages: 18+ | Free

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  • Landscape view of Chateau de Breze on a blue summer's day with the vineyard at the front field of the chateau
    Experience

    Chateau du Breze

    Saumur, Pays de la Loire, France

    Beneath this attractive Renaissance and neo-Gothic chateau is a remarkable 9th-century fortress, a troglodyte labyrinth complete with drawbridge, stables, and guardrooms. The chateau is also known for excellent wines, which you can taste in Les Caves de la Comtesse de Colbert in the chateau grounds.

    Best for ages: 18+ | £10

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  • External view of the troglodyte mushroom farm, built into a hillside
    Experience

    Le Saut aux Loups mushroom farm

    Saumur, Pays de la Loire, France

    This series of cool, dank caverns in Montsoreau is said to have once been inhabited by loups (wolves), then exploited as quarries, before being turned into a champignonnière (mushroom farm). Button, oyster and shitake mushrooms are cultivated here today.

    Best for ages: 13+ | Free

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