Explorar Angers

The Château d'Angers is a fortress above the River Maine, rebuilt from 1234 under Louis IX with a curtain wall of 17 round towers banded in dark slate and pale stone. Inside are the royal lodging and chapel of the Dukes of Anjou, gardens on the ramparts, and the Apocalypse Tapestry, commissioned in 1373 by Louis I of Anjou.

The Jardin des Plantes d'Angers is a 4-hectare public garden on Place Mendès-France, founded as a botanical garden in 1777 and moved in 1789 to land that had belonged to the Benedictines of Saint-Serge. Its present English-style layout by Édouard André dates from 1901–1905, with old trees, a stream with small waterfalls, a pond, a play area and animal enclosures.