One of the most famous Loire castles - Chateaudun - will be the first who will meet on the way out of the capital of France in Chartres. Its construction was started in 1170 by the Count of Blois, but other buildings in its complex appeared in the XV century, when throughout the centuries various owners of the castle were engaged in its construction and conversion to your liking.

Count of Blois built a powerful dungeon - a thick-walled three-storey castle circular shape taller than 30 meters and a diameter of about 17, whose entrance was raised 10 meters above the ground. Subsequent owners were great chapel and two wings. One of them, West, built in the second half of the XV century, perhaps the most famous master of Chateaudun - companion of Joan of Arc, Jean de Dunois, and the other (north) erected at the end of the century, his grandson Francois de Longueville. Both the housing and is now called by their names. This castle Jean de Dunois received as a reward for their participation in the battles with the British.

Chapel at the castle is one of the twelve holy chapel France, where guns were kept fragments of Christ's Passion. Having a chapel was considered a special privilege available only to members of the royal family. In the chapel you can see the statues of the saints and frescoes dating from the beginning of the XVI century. On one of the frescoes depicted the Last Judgment, it is considered the most impressive.

In the castle houses a collection of tapestries, woven in the XV-XVI centuries. This collection also includes a series of tapestries, which depict scenes from the life of Moses.

In several private gardens in the castle today grow those plants which have been popular with medieval cooking, perfumes and pharmacists.