Accueil - Plan your visit
Campsite – Rue de l’Eglise
Open from April 15 to September 30
30 pitches close to shops
Bike station for cyclists and possibility of renting a 3-person stopover cabin.
07 88 24 47 35 or 02 47 45 43 08
Free service station for motorhomes – Rue des Ecoles
Holiday cottages :
10, rue de Jolivet
02 47 45 28 98 or jpmartin.jolivet@orange.fr
63, rue de Jolivet
02 47 45 40 60 or rose.d.delaunay@gmail.com
85bis, rue de la Vallée
02 47 38 10 62 or jacpiot@gmail.com
22, rue du Chillou
Restaurant Pa.Ta.Tra – 1, place de la Mairie
Grocery/Bar “La Grange” – 8, rue des Caves Fortes
Restaurant Du Poulailler à l’assiette – 9, place de la Mairie (groups only, by reservation)
Picnic areas :
Villaines-les-Rochers’ wicker and basket-making activities make it a major center of wicker-making know-how in France, with some forty active professionals. This expertise has been recognized by a number of awards: Meilleurs Ouvriers et Apprentis de France, Prix Artistique Mode et Design, Parc Naturel Loire Anjou Touraine label…
Basket-making workshops in Villaines les Rochers :
Basket-making workshops around Villaines-les-Rochers :
Salicetum : conservatory and study site for wicker varieties
Fête de la Pèlerie – 3rd weekend in May
Saint-André chrurch
Saint-André church is particularly noteworthy for its murals and stained glass windows, one of the only churches in France to have preserved all the paintings (1200m2) covering the walls and vault in their entirety.
Built around an 11th-century apse and 12th-century bell tower, the church was enlarged in 1859 and decorated with a series of paintings designed to bring the Gospel characters closer to the faithful, in the spirit of the Romanesque paintings that were being rediscovered at the time. Stained-glass windows by the Lobin workshop in Tours add to the exceptional unity of the whole.
Troglodytes
The village stretches along three Y-shaped valleys. More than a thousand troglodytes lurk around a bend, behind a house, along a path or on a terrace. They were originally dug to serve as dwellings for the villagers and are still used today as homes, workshops, cellars, storage rooms, spare rooms, etc.
Visits are possible all year round on request – Contact the town hall.
Journées Découverte des Troglos – 2nd weekend in June