Facilities available:
Bar, Beauty Treatments, Bicycle Rentals, Candlelight Dinner, Computer rental, Cooking Courses, Concierge Service, Excursions, Guided Tours, Limousine Services, Parking, Pets Welcome, Private Transfer To / From City, Private Transfer To / From Rail Station, Private Transfer To / From Airport, Sun Terrace, Wine Tasting, Cocktails in garden, TV Room, Park, Garden, Reading Room, Restaurant in vicinity, Jogging track, WiFi Sat Internet connection, Air Tour, Golf Course in vicinity, Horseback Riding facilities in vicinity, Laundry service
Hidden away in the midst of the idyllic wooden hills of the Perche between
Chartres and Tours, near Vendôme, at the entrance to the Loir and Loire
valleys, Chateau de La Barre lies protected from all noise and disturbance
in its 100 acre park and gardens, and emerges as a historical haven.
The Count and Countess de Vanssay, 20th generation of the family in the same
location, warmly welcome you into their home, where elegance and
authenticity meet with comfort and modernity. The grand salon, decorated in
1778 for the marriage of the Marquis de Vanssay, and adorned with an ornate
chandelier, ancestral portraits and magnificient antiques, transmits a quiet
air of history; the salon rose, built in the 16th century, combines cozyness
by the fire with beautiful furnishings. Moving both back and forward in
time, the 14th century "pièce à feu" with the former well and monumental
hearth now houses a bar, satellite TV and billiard.
In the great dinning room, masterpiece of the 18th century with its'
imposing dresser, 4 course candlelit dinners accompanied by a special
selection of wines, are hosted three times a week.
All the bedrooms and suites, each somptuously and individually decorated
with beautiful period antiques, offer splendid views out onto the XVIth
century fortifications, the vast garden, the pond and valley beyond.
During the day, simply enjoy relaxed, aristocratic living, or else visit the
picturesque villages with their manor houses and XIIth century romanesque
churches repleat with frescoes, vineyards, classic or romantic gardens, the
spectacular old city of Le Mans, birthplace of the Plantagenet kings, or
further afield, the famed Loire valley castles. Superb riding and golf in
the vicinity.
