Since July 1, 2011, the castle ruins Vaujours are open to the public after twenty years of closure.

The romantic ruins of the castle Vaujours (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) appear in a green surrounded by his moat. This beautiful cabinet is lined with many round towers with battlements, one of which, Joan of Arc tower.

The castle consists of two courses, the lower court and high court.

In the high court, we find the remains of the stately home built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the 12th century keep and the chapel.

Louis the 11th stayed there several times with his sister Joan, wife of Antoine de Breuil, natural daughter of Charles and Agnes Sorel 7th.

Jean de Breuil fifth, Count of Sancerre, and companion of Joan of Arc, made his castle a fortress impregnable during the Hundred Years War.

Vaujours has a unique fortification, developed for its time, with boulevards and circular bastions two centuries before the Vauban style.

Louis the 14th in ériga Peerage Duchy for the benefit of his first mistress Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, the Duchy of Valliere was equipped with 40 000 hectares.

The castle escaped the turmoil of the Revolution and became a ruin in the 19th century during the rebuilding of the castle of the Landes (golf Seven Towers neighbor, 2 km). Vaujours served as a quarry to its English owner, Stanhope-Holland, and remains the largest medieval ruin of Indre-et-Loire.