The Château de la Bourdaisière is a magnificent castle of the XVth century. François Ist built it for his mistress. It became then the favourite place of residence for famed Mlle. Gabrielle d' Estrées, favourite of Henri IV. Today, a tourism site for relaxation but also discovery, the Château de la Bourdaisière offers outdoor activities, rooms, and reception rooms, but also place for exhibitions and luxurious gardens which shelters an extraordinary kitchen garden of 1 hectare. Bourdaisière provides you with 11 rooms and 3 apartments in the Castle and 6 rooms in the Pavilion Choiseul. Rooms are spacious, quite differently decorated in the same spirit of taste and refinement of these women who made the history. The lounge is decorated with a herbarium.

In the heart of the Loire valley, the park and the gardens of the Château de la Bourdaisière bring the art of living to its fullest potential. Devastatingly divine are the variety of smells, savours and colours. Cultivated in the big market garden tradition, the vegetables of Bourdaisière are healthy and natural and invite you to taste. To bring to light the simple beauty found in a vegetable, the master gardner sets flowers and aromatic herbs in original arrangements in cranies of sweet chestnut trees. Outdoor activities are made possible thanks to an outdoor heated swimming pool (10 x 18 metres), tennis court or to simply take advantage of this remarkable Castle, enjoy the quietude found in the heart of the park and of nature.

The Château de la Bourdaisière is near the biggest Castles of the Loire and in the middle of the vineyards of Montlouis and Vouvray. The Bourdaisière, classified as World Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is situated in a closed park of 55 hectares, 1 hour away from Paris by TGV, between Tours and Amboise, in the heart of the Loire valley.