A key place of the Middle Ages, cradle of the Renaissance, the Centre region has successfully preserved the breathtaking works created at this cultural crossroads.

Push the doors of the Fine Arts Museums of Orléans or Tours, step into the homes of great writers or stroll along the streets of towns rich in art and history and around some of France’s most beautiful villages.

It is for good reason that the Centre region is known as the Garden of France. A garden both secret and wild, irrigated by meandering waterways, in which all your senses will delight.

Thousands of lakes, wild rapids and rivers that flow lazily by, wooded slopes and endless expanses of forest: our natural heritage is one of the richest and most varied in France.