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Audio Guide Loches
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Loches is one of the Loire Valley's most intact medieval citadels, a rocky spur town where a thousand years of French history are written in stone. The keep built by Foulques III Nerra in 1013 still stands 36 metres tall, and Joan of Arc once walked the same corridors you can visit today.
14+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Loches: 14 researched places, from The Keep to The Royal Lodge and Collegiate Church of Saint-Ours, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: The Keep
Loches
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 14 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Medieval keep
- Royal lodge
- Romanesque church
- Renaissance towers
- Medieval gates
- Monument
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The Keep
Built between 1013 and 1035 by the formidable Count of Anjou Foulques III Nerra, this 36-metre Romanesque tower later became a royal prison and the very place where Joan of Arc met Charles VII in 1429 to persuade him to march on Reims.
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The Royal Lodge
What started as a fortress under Foulques III Nerra grew into a royal residence that hosted Joan of Arc and Anne de Bretagne, whose personal oratory, decorated in flamboyant Gothic style, still survives inside.
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Collegiate Church of Saint-Ours
The church's most unusual feature is its pair of hollow pyramidal stone vaults called "dubes," a form found almost nowhere else; it also holds the restored tomb of Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in French history.
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Saint-Antoine Tower
Built between 1529 and 1575 in tuffeau stone, this 52-metre bell tower is the only Renaissance beffroi in the whole of Touraine, converted from a chapel tower into a civic clock tower after the French Revolution.
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Royal Gate
The sole entrance to Loches's upper citadel began as a wooden gate in the 11th century before being rebuilt in stone with round towers and machicolations, then modified again in the 15th century specifically to handle gunpowder artillery.
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Le Martelet
This 15th-century prison tower, built under Louis XI, once held Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, for eight years; the walls he covered with his own drawings and inscriptions can still be seen today.
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Lansyer Museum
Painter Emmanuel Lansyer bequeathed his entire home to Loches in 1891, filling it with over 6,000 items including his own landscapes and a remarkable collection of Japanese art that most visitors walking past the citadel never think to look for.
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Good to know
14 researched places, from the Keep and the Royal Lodge to lesser-known spots like the Lansyer Museum. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Loches once and keep access to all 14 places with text and audio.
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Get the full articles, audio stories, and map for this city in the Parroo app. One payment per geography. Yours to keep.
Updated: 2026-09-25