Saint-Léonard-En-Beauce: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Culture

Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce was a pilgrimage site to which the entire region made pilgrimages to the relics of Saint Léonard. The Église Saint-Léonard is a Romanesque church dating from before the year 1000. Relics of Saint Léonard are kept in the Église Saint-Léonard.

The Châsse-reliquaire de saint Léonard is located in the nave at the entrance to the choir on the southern side of the Église Saint-Léonard. It is owned by the municipality and was registered as a protected object on 6 June 1978.

The historic site Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Aumône is located in the immediate vicinity of Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce.

Nature

The Vallée Gassante is the upper section of a six-kilometre-long dry valley. At the surface, the Vallée Gassante forms the expression of an underground karst system that leads to the Cisse-Resurgence. Calcareous grassland grows on the limestone slopes of the Vallée Gassante.

Geographical setting

The château de Cour-sur-Loire is located in the wider regional surroundings of Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce. The historic site Château de Beaugency is also located in the wider regional surroundings of Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce. The historic site Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Beaugency is located there as well. The Parc de Menars and Parc de Chambord parks are also located in the wider regional surroundings of Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce.

History

The Monument Aux Morts is a memorial site with several steles; one of them commemorates the crew of an American bomber shot down on 5 February 1944.

Anyone planning a trip to Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

More destination pages: Fougères-Sur-Bièvre, Souvigny-En-Sologne, Les Hayes, Oisly, Fossé, Cellé, Montrouveau, Tour-En-Sologne.

To the higher-level travel overview: Loir-Et-Cher.