Activities at Chateau de la Bourdaisiere or nearby

• Accommodations:

  • 17 rooms & 3 apartments at the Chateau

  • 6 rooms in the Pavillion Choiseul

• Meeting facilities

• Heated outdoor swimming pool

• Tennis court

• Walking or cycling in the 120 acres park

• Massages (on request)

• Nearby: horse riding, ballooning, golf.

Weddings & Receptions:

The Château de la Bourdaisière offers you a magnificent reception room (320 square meters) with a stone vaulted ceiling for your wedding, reception or special event. We are able to make your every wish come true.

You can rent the François 1er Reception Room as well as rooms or apartments in the castle or the entire castle for your wedding.

The Château de la Bourdaisière is open all year round for weddings, gala evenings or that very special event you would like to celebrate.

There are rooms available for:

• Private events: weddings, anniversaries, cocktail parties, exhibits, etc.
• Professional or corporate events: gala evenings, product launches, etc.
• Special private events: family reunions, club meetings, etc.

The Conservatory of Tomato:

A Conservatory initiated by the Prince in 1992, that became a 650 tomato collection in 1998. It was then listed by the CCVS as (Conservatoire des Collections de Variétés Spécialisés), showing the immense variety of this fruit and therefore the level of unknown biodiversity of a supposedly well know fruit, one of the most consumed in the world.

Louis Albert de Broglie has picked up the idea of bringing ancient vegetable and fruits, herbs and flowers, reminiscent of his garden in Normandy and from his long stay in India were local markets which were showing a greater diversity and cultural conservation compared to our standardize modern world.

Working with individuals, ONG’s that were doing a tremendous work of preserving old species, at some point he was asked by a major International seeding company offering subsidies to renovate the estate vegetable garden, to drop from his committee list the name of 2 individuals trying to keep alive ancient species for the benefit of all.

The alternative was no alternative to Louis Albert de Broglie, but to turn down the subsidies offered by the international seeding company.

Louis Albert de Broglie preferred Philippe Desbrosses and Dominique Guillet’s battle to save old species and share them with the community.

This became a sort of crusade for Louis Albert that understood that the principal factor of species disappearing was the lack of knowledge from the general public that were distracted from the use of vegetable gardens to industrial offers in supermarket.

In the middle of the 90s this was a bit avantgardist, but with the ‘dioxin’, mad cow diseases soon turned the no interest of the public into a large question mark : what do we eat and how come some gardens show an unknown diversity ?.

The vegetable garden of the Château de la Bourdaisière is meant to show, teach, make people aware, so they can understand the issue, preserve the species by planting them, discover the virtues of the aliments and transmit to the next generation.

The vegetable garden is open from April 1st to October 30st. The vegetables are only grown on a principle of biodynamics with a total respect for local traditions.

Further to the tomato collection, the garden offers a wide range of medicinal plants with a garden designed by Marie d’Hennezel well know for a Conservatory Garden in the Cévennes and her herbal tea collection and products, and also offers a new contemporary garden that includes a Dalhia Color with more than 100 different Dalhias.

SIGHTSEEING

Amboise:
The historical village is located 13km from the Estate. The center with the Château d'Amboise, the Clos Lucé, the late house of Leonardo da Vinci with the replications of all his inventions, the old city's pedestrian streets, the wharf on the Loire River and the market on Sunday morning makes it a fascinating destination.

The city of Tours:
15 km from the castle of La Bourdaisière. Many restaurants, especially around the famous Place Plumereau.

Chenonceau:
24 km from la Bourdaisière.

Les jardins de Villandry:
Discover the chateau de Villandry’s latest cultural event calendar. The gardens are the star of four events “Rendezvous in the gardens”, “Candlelit evenings in the gardens”, “the European Heritage weekend” and the “Journées du Potager”. In June Villandry’s new Oriental drawing room will be inaugurated and visitors in October can enjoy the “Music and Chess” festival. Silk hangings, photographs and watercolours will be exhibited from April at October.