This medieval-inspired garden, laid out at the foot of the Tour Carrée, features the medicinal plants that make up the famous “Polychreston”, a medicine conceived in 1619 by Théophraste Renaudot, but also other plants, such as condiments used in cooking: woven chestnut squares, pergolas and wooden arches provide the backdrop to this garden, which also features fruit trees. This tour takes you into a world of scents and pleasant, diverse sensations.

Today, it’s the only remaining element of the fortress dismantled under Louis XIII, who wanted to suppress a Protestant stronghold.

It’s the highest point on the hill in Loudun, making it a Romanesque tower built at the instigation of the Counts of Anjou.

Closed in winter. Health pass required