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Ruins worth the detour!

A few small difficult passages (thick mud, stony descent, etc.), it's a good mountain bike route.

Beautiful tree growing in the wall of the village church

The fruit of chance or the work of a mischievous bird, for almost two centuries in the small village of Cheillé, an oak tree has taken root in the wall of the church. More surprising: inside the Saint-Didier church (the patron saint of grape harvesters), we can guess nothing; the roots, invisible, have crept into the stone. When the Historical Monuments proposed the idea of uprooting this tree, because its weight weakened the bell tower, the inhabitants of the village who had always known it, opposed it. It has sometimes been mutilated, and road or telephone installation work has weakened its roots. But it withstood the shock and still sits above the road today. It was classified in 2018 among the remarkable trees of France.

Be careful of submersible path in high floods

Ruins of two buildings. The castle, dating from the 15th century, only has scattered remains, while the collegiate church, built in the 16th century, has preserved majestic ruins.

good time to eat something at the picnic tables

A simple and pleasant place that allows you to discover lesser known aspects of castle life From the Middle Ages until the last century, peasants from Tours lived in these troglodyte farms. At that time, the poor people only had their arms for wealth and began to dig the tufa hills to make it their living environment and extract this beautiful limestone which will be used for centuries for the construction of beautiful residences and castles of the Loire. All the peasants were quarrymen and worked on the extraction of freestone in order to build the castles.