Recommendations and distinctions for La Corroirie

Travel guides, journalists, heritage institutions and visitors attentive to historic places have recognised the authenticity and singular character of the Château-monastère de la Corroirie. Their words shed light on a living place, faithful to its history, without reducing it to a simple address.

Entering the place from the inside

The press, travel guides and guests have left their traces.
What remains is not only to read them, but to approach the place itself: to stay within the monument, to walk through its landscape, or to discover the surrounding Touraine from La Corroirie. To continue: stay in the château or explore the places to discover around La Corroirie.

Guides, press and recognition

La Corroirie has long appeared through outside eyes: travel guides, heritage institutions, national press, regional media and personal travel accounts. These mentions do not define the place entirely. They form a set of echoes, gathered over time, through stays, visits and journeys across Touraine.

Heritage and transmission

National press

  • Le Monde – M le magazine mentioned La Corroirie in an article devoted to characterful places to stay in Touraine, evoking the château-monastery, its Carthusian origin, its park near the royal forest of Loches and its rooms.
  • Le Journal du Dimanche included La Corroirie in a selection devoted to château stays, where the place appears through its monacal and seigneurial rooms, the fireplace, the forest, and its proximity to Loches and Chenonceau.
  • La Corroirie has also been mentioned by Le Figaro Magazine and Valeurs Actuelles , in articles looking at houses of character, singular guest rooms and places where one stays differently.

Regional press and media

Travel guides and tourism platforms

  • La Corroirie is recommended or mentioned by several guides: Michelin Green Guide , Petit Futé , Guide du Routard , Guides Bleus, Eco-Lodges, Guide Rivages, Alastair Sawday’s and the guide by Marie-Dominique Perrin.
  • In May 2026, the Routard online magazine also mentioned La Corroirie in an article devoted to Loches and southern Touraine, alongside the Chartreuse du Liget and the chapel of Saint-Jean-du-Liget.
  • La Corroirie is also listed by Patrice Besse among houses of character.
  • La Corroirie is also referenced by Cityzeum , in a page devoted to the Corroirie du Liget, between Carthusian history, fortified monument and the discovery of southern Touraine.

Blogs and travel accounts

  • The blog Tinou au jour le jour includes an illustrated account of a road trip in Touraine, where La Corroirie appears among the places visited around the Liget, Montrésor and southern Touraine.
  • Other personal accounts, such as Clic et Plume , show how La Corroirie can also be discovered by fragments, through a stay, a visit or an unexpected detour.
  • The Italian travel blog Città Meridiane devoted a long illustrated account to La Corroirie, written after a stay in the Cardinal Room. The article evokes the approach through woods and ponds, the silence of the estate, the five rooms, the church and the Carthusian history, through a personal Italian perspective on the Loire Valley.

Tourism and territory

Jeff tells the story of La Corroirie for Val de Loire TV

An archive from Le Figaro Magazine

Extract from Le Figaro Magazine, 30 April 2010: La Corroirie du Liget, between luxury and simplicity, article about the château-monastery and its guest rooms
Le Figaro Magazine – 30 April 2010 – “La Corroirie du Liget, entre luxe et dépouillement”, article by Alain Marriez.

Continue the discovery

These outside views invite one less to consume an address than to enter a place. La Corroirie can be visited, walked through, or lived more slowly from the rooms of the former hostelry.

Approach the history of La Corroirie
Stay at La Corroirie for several days