Types of visit
School
Reserve your english commented tour, educational workshop or artistic activity.
Visits available from September to June and educational workshop n°3 available from September to May.
We recommend that you organize your school trip at least two months in advance.
COMMENTED TOURS
… a guide just for you
Guided tour (7-18 years)
You lay a siege in front of the ramparts before attacking the keep. When you arrive in the upper courtyard, you will know everything about attacking and defending a fortified castle.
Duration: 45 min
Price: 40€ + admission
Group: 45 children maximum
Guided tour with demonstration in firing a trebuchet (7-18 years)
After laying siege to the castle, you become assistants to the guide who operates the trebuchet, the most powerful war machine of the Middle Ages.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: 50€ + admission
Group: 45 children maximum
Guided tour with demonstration in shooting a crossbow (7-14 years)
After laying siege to the castle, the guide presents a crossbow in detail, explains how it works and experiments it with you.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Price: 65€ + admission
Group: 24 children maximum
HERITAGE WORKSHOPS
… as a complement to the castle tour
Workshop n°1: A coat of arms that looks like you (8-11 years)
Or or argent? Sable or azure? The children familiarise themselves with a new language of shapes and colours and create their own coat of arms.
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 115€ + admission
Group: 24 children maximum
Workshop n°3: The panoply of the perfect combatant (8-12 years)
This tour full of surprises lets the children discover and experiment the equipment of the men-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 115€ + admission
Group: 24 children maximum
Workshop n°5: The Builders’ Secrets (10-12 years)
The children measure with feet and inches, create a 13-knot arithmetic rope and experiment it such as builders in the Middle Ages.
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 115€ + admission
Group: 24 children maximum
ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
Medieval Dances (5-10 years)
Due to the current health situation, the « Medieval Dance » activity is unavailable at this time.
This activity is the occasion for children to appreciate a variety of new sounds and to try different group dances: treska, carole, saltarello…
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Price: 100€ + admission
Group: 15 to 24 children maximum
