In Chambord, the history of the château and the surrounding landscape can offer different focal points for a stay. At the Château, visitors can create their own route; outdoors, the Grande Promenade opens up trails through a variety of landscapes. So if you’re looking for accommodation in Chambord, it helps to first consider whether you’d like to devote most of your time to the Château, nature or both.
Château, history and baroque gardens
The Château et domaine de Chambord is part of the Val de Loire UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes. At the Château de Chambord, visitors can create their own route through 70 rooms and 500 years of French history. These two details offer different perspectives: the rooms describe the scale of the tour, while the 500 years provide the historical context. You can therefore shape your own visit while exploring both the rooms and their history.
The French baroque gardens of Chambord also offer a distinctive experience: they cover 6.5 hectares. Alongside exploring the Château, this offers another focus on French baroque design. When planning your visit, you can consider the château and the gardens as different aspects of the cultural experience, rather than treating them as one and the same visit.
Trails and nature experiences
The Grande Promenade offers visitors more than 30 kilometres of trails for discovering the park’s biodiversity. It also opens up 1,000 hectares of forests, trails, meadows and heathland in the Park of Chambord. This offers a different perspective from a tour of the château’s rooms: here, the focus is on landscapes and biodiversity. The types of landscape mentioned also give a concrete sense of what the park’s trails lead through.
A guided walk with a nature guide offers insights into the forest of Chambord and how to interact with its flora and wild fauna. It takes place in Europe’s largest walled nature reserve. In addition, a guided forest excursion in an off-road vehicle takes visitors into the part of the Chambord estate that is usually closed to the public. This makes the excursion different from the Grande Promenade: it takes visitors in an off-road vehicle into an area that is usually closed, while the promenade lets visitors discover the park’s biodiversity on footpaths. Conditions for the forest excursion may vary.
Cycling route and getting to the Château
The La Loire à Vélo cycling route crosses the Park of Chambord for about 6 kilometres. This approximate distance refers to its route through the park and gives cyclists a useful reference point for planning. To get to the Château, a shuttle operated by the Rémi-41 bus network takes visitors to the Château de Chambord on Line 2. Check the timetable before setting off so you can plan your journey accordingly.
Choose a focus for your accommodation search
The cycling route adds a specific route option to the landscape experience.
Discover more destinations: Soings-En-Sologne, Couture-Sur-Loir, Châtres-Sur-Cher, Talcy, Chouzy-Sur-Cisse, Yvoy-Le-Marron, Vallières-Les-Grandes, Souesmes.
For an overview of the wider region: Loir-Et-Cher.
