458 €

Discover Bourges & Sancerre 2 days / 1 niht -in guesthouse or 2** hotel (_BOU)

Day 1: Paris / Bourges by train Corail
Lunch in downtown
Visit of the cathedral and/or old city
Visit of the Palais Jacquecoeur
Free time
Free time for dinner
Night at the Bonnets rouges or 2 star hotel.
Day 2: Transportation to Sancerre
Guided visit of Sancerre
Lunch in downtown
Visite of la maison des Sancerre + wine tasting
Back to Bourges
Bourges / Paris by train Corail.

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詳細 - Discover Bourges & Sancerre 2 days / 1 niht -in guesthouse or 2** hotel

Validity: departure from Paris on Wednesday and friday

Price includes : Corail train return journey, B&B accomodation at the Bonnets Rouges or 2 star hotel, lunch day 1 and 2, programmed visits, day 2 car rental.

Price does not include : personal expenses, drinks.

Day 1 : Paris – Bourges

6.45am Meet at the Gare Austerlitz to take the 7.06am Corail train
to Bourges arrival 8.57am.
Meet at the Tourist Office, distribution of your personal welcome
pack.
Check-in at the Bonnets Rouges, a picturesque 17th century guesthouse ideally
located in the historic town centre.
Lunch in town centre.
In the afternoon a guided (or non-guided) tour of the Cathedral Saint-Étienne, listed by Unesco as World Heritage site, and/or tour of the Old City on foot or by mini train-(March to November). The medieval city is full of artistic, historical and cultural importance. Walk past sumptuous merchant houses, down narrow cobbled lanes, past Renaissance hotels and along Gallo-Roman ramparts.
You will visit Jacques-Cœur’s Palace, magnificent 15th century gothic civic monument,
built on the Gallo-Roman ramparts ; with its lavishly sculptured façades and very innovative architecture, it symbolises the success of the superintendent of King Charles VII. Jacques Cœur was an adventurer, a skilled merchant and also a great communicator who signed everywhere his presence with his emblem «a heart and a shell» and whose
motto « with a courageous heart nothing is impossible » travelled through the centuries to present day.

5.30pm Free time to wander and shop in the pedestrianized streets of Bourges.
Free to dine where you wish.
In the evening, freely discover the « The Light nights of Bourges »
a captivating sound and light show that takes you for an hour’s walk starting from
the Jardins de l’Archevêché (Archbishop Gardens) where a film projected onto
the Gallo-Roman wall retraces the history of Bourges, once called Avaricum
« city of water ».
(Show is free and opens at nightfall, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in May,
June and September ; daily July and August).
Night at the Bonnets Rouges guesthouse.

Day 2 : Bourges - Paris

Breakfast at the guesthouse.
Departure from Bourges around 9am with a hired car direction Sancerre.
Around 10.30am guided tour of Sancerre, perched on its famous « piton », surrounded by sunny hills where the grapes of the renowned vintage grow.
The city stands out with its view over the Loire, with its Fiefs Tower recalling the past when the town held out against the Anglo-Bourguignons during the Hundred Years War.
12am Lunch in the town centre.
2.30 Visit of the Maison de Sancerre, in an exceptional setting with a unique view over the town and the vineyards.
You will discover the world of wine-growers and their region in an enchanting set-up and also a fragrant fruit and flower garden.
The Maison de Sancerre will offer you a wine tasting and give you a souvenir glass.

Meet at the station around 5pm to take the 5.35pm Corail train arriving in Paris around 7.30.