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Between the Loire and the hills, Turquant welcomes, in season, craftsmen and a Métiers d'Art boutique in a remarkably restored troglodyte site. Several designers open their workshops to the public and passionately share their expertise. Today, you can wander around the troglodytes between tradition and modernity to discover all their originality.

Between Montsoreau and Saumur, the tuffeau rock dominates the Loire and is cut from one end to the other by a series of caves, sometimes troglodyte dwellings, sometimes quarries... Villages spring up in the valleys that crisscross the hills, while vineyards and mills mark the ridge. In Turquant, more than anywhere else, you can discover this Loire landscape, so characteristic of the Côte Saumuroise. Today, between tradition and modernity, the troglodytes can be discovered in all their originality, particularly in the Village des Métiers d'Art.

At this location you are in the middle of an underground labyrinth of Souzay-Champigny. Explanation: underground, in the cliffs and hills, the troglodytes of Saumurois form an enormous underground network. These are unique in France. More than 1 km of tunnels have been dug by man over the centuries to live, shelter and work. Here you can literally dive into a cool past.

The cave houses in question were carved into sandy limestone, which was probably deposited in the Cretaceous period. You can see from the layered structures that they were shallow sea or coastal deposits.

In Turquant, the troglodytes are a network of tunnels of a thousand kilometers that cross the world under ground. Former freestone quarries, the galleries now serve as habitats, mushroom houses, museums and restaurants.

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.

On this small bucolic path, enjoy a panoramic view of the suburbs of Chinon. Above all, in the old tufa quarries that dig the cliff, discover the troglodyte houses.