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Serrant : the backstage of the castle

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Château de Serrant – Saint-Georges sur Loire
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Unusual visit behind the scenes of the castle

This is the first castle on the Loire River to go upstream from Nantes. A beautiful Franco-Irish story on a Renaissance architecture background. Famous guests: Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Queen Mother of England...

This castle "to go back in time", still inhabited, can be visited.
But, in addition to a "classic" visit, it offers an unusual visit, that of the backstage of the castle.
This very special tour allows you to discover the "backstage", corridors and rooms never opened: boiler room, bakery, butcher's shop, attic, and mezzanine.

Some rooms, which have not changed in 100 years, allow you to see, for example, the daily life of servants in 1900, the comfort installations of the Belle Époque, the German occupation of the last war. Many stairs to be expected!

 

A more classical visit...

The more classical visit will allow you to discover the large living room with its multiple works of art, the "monumental" kitchens with their 200 coppers, the Louis XIII and Louis XIV furniture of the anteroom, the Louis XV apartments, the library with its 12,000 volumes, and the extraordinary ebony cabinet, a masterpiece of cabinet making, with its precious marquetry and its secret drawers, which the castle has kept for more than 300 years!

 

 

Castle of Serrant

49170 Saint-Georges-sur-Loire

Tel : 02 41 39 13 01


https://www.chateau-serrant.net/

 

To go further....

Mille et un châteaux du Maine et Loire

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Combien y a-t-il de châteaux, manoirs, gentilhommières et autres belles demeures en Maine-et-Loire ? Difficile question à laquelle peu ont osé répondre : soixante-dix ? Trois cents ? Mille cinq cents ? La seule certitude est que notre département est d’une richesse historique et patrimoniale incroyable !
A partir d’une impressionnante collection de cartes postales, datant de 1897 à 1920, l’auteur nous présente ici, commune par commune, cet extraordinaire patrimoine angevin.
Un travail exceptionnel, livré par un collectionneur passionné par sa région et son patrimoine. Un travail déjà salué par Gabriel Turquet de Beauregard (Architecte des Bâtiments de France du Maine-et-Loire) : « Plus que le vestige d’une époque ou d’une société, ces mille et un
châteaux du Maine-et-Loire forment aujourd’hui un patrimoine territorial témoignant à la fois d’un art de vivre mais aussi d’un savoir-faire technique et artistique. »
Illustré par 957 cartes postales

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