Loches Attractions

Loches (pop. 6,329) is picturesquely situated above the Indre, a left-bank tributary of the Loire. On the hill above the town is the Cité Médiévale, surrounded by a circuit of walls 2km/1.5mi long. This town within a town is entered through the Porte Royale (13th and 15th C.), a fortified gate which was once approached by a drawbridge.

Within the Cité is the church of St-Ours, originally founded in 962 but mostly dating in its present form from the 12th C.

In the adjoining little town of Beaulieu are the ruins of an abbey founded about the year 1000, the Romanesque church of which has been preserved.