The Pastoral Room, moat and evening light

A room open to the landscape, where the day slowly stretches towards evening.

The Pastoral Room looks towards the moat and the park, in a direct relationship with the outside. The eye does not meet a nearby limit, but distance, breadth and breathing space.

A freestanding bathtub has been placed facing this opening. It accompanies the light, especially at the moment of the setting sun, when colours slowly settle on the water and the stones.

The room becomes a passage between inside and outside, between day and night, in a simple and silent continuity.

From the Pastoral Room, the view extends towards the moat, the woods and the fields surrounding the château-monastery. Three large openings allow the light to enter widely and naturally prolong the interior space towards the landscape.

As the hours pass, the room accompanies the day without constraining it. Morning is clear and silent. In the evening, shadows lengthen, the windows frame the horizon, and the room takes on a softer, slower tone.

This constant relationship with the outside gives the Pastoral Room its character: a place where one does not withdraw from the world, but remains quietly connected to what surrounds it.

The room has a large double bed, 180 x 200 cm, composed of two individual bases and two joined mattresses. They cannot be separated, but this arrangement allows greater sleeping independence within the same bed.

The bathroom belongs to the continuity of the room. The freestanding bathtub, turned towards the horizon, extends this relationship with the landscape into stillness.

Taking a bath here means remaining within the movement of the day. The gaze continues, even in stillness. The shower, open to the room, has a large shower head, in a simple arrangement without rupture from the resting space.

Three pillows are provided in the room. The bed linen is cotton jersey, with a duvet. Two large bath sheets, two bath towels and a bath mat accompany the bathroom.

Handmade soaps from Azay-le-Rideau and slippers are provided. Wi-Fi is free and simple to access, a fan remains available, and parking is in the private courtyard of La Corroirie.

The Pastoral Room is one of the rooms of the Château-monastère de la Corroirie, conceived as different ways of inhabiting an ancient place still lived in today.

To stay here is to accept a slower rhythm, to watch the light change, and to remain in relation with the landscape — in a different way from the Monacal Room, which is more inward and withdrawn.

From the Pastoral Room, the eye naturally continues beyond the moat, the woods and the fields. This opening invites time, not only within the room, but also in the landscapes and places around it.

A little further away, the ZooParc de Beauval can take its place within a longer stay, as another way of approaching the living world before returning to the calm of the moat, the trees and the evening light.

Other roads lead towards the landscapes of Touraine, between villages, forests and rivers. Yet often, what matters remains here: in the light slowly descending over the moat, in the calm of evening, and in this simple relationship between the room and the landscape.

The Pastoral Room belongs to a set of five rooms, each connected to the place in a different way.

Here, everything opens towards the moat, the park and the evening light. Elsewhere, the relationship to the place is composed differently: closer to the church, roses and garden in the Cardinal Room, or calmer, more turned towards the horizon, in the Monial Room.

Choosing the Pastoral Room means accompanying the landscape until evening, in an open relationship between the room, the water and time.