Le Parc du Château de Chantore — Attraction in Avranches

Just visited house and garden. The host is very welcoming, and the guide for the tour of 5-6 rooms on the ground floor of the chateau was well informed and welcoming. The rooms themselves have been renovated with very good taste.

The gardens are very tranquil. Peacocks are free to roam, there is lots of birdsong and fish in the lake. The horses were happy in their stables. Specimen trees are well labelled, and signposting throughout is discrete but effective. The garden does have an English style, that is when the English were bringing back plants from Asia, rhododendrons and bamboo, so one of the bridges is Chinese style. Lakes and water features are very attractive.

Thankfully no gift shop or coffee shop, but will take away...

This Chateau and gardens were a great discovery. The car park is accessed via the long and impressive drive leading to the Chateau. On a clear day Le Mont St Michel can be seen from the rear steps of the house.

The gardens are informal and can be seen via a circular walk. This follows a stream that flows through a series of ponds, It continues around the edge of the estate providing a view of the gardens and the surrounding countryside which is beautiful. The latter part of the walk is through woodland.

It is well...

Absolutely amazing and worth the visit! The parc is incredibly beautiful and huge! Among trees, local and some rather exotic plants you will find streams and ponds with goose and swans and also beautiful, elegant black horses. (They have there own space that you can't enter but you can observe them.) There are also some very, very old and tall, majestic trees. We were there with our dogs and enjoyed a long and unforgetable walk with lots of pictures! We...