This area has so much to offer and having a comfortable home base from which to explore can really enhance the experience. Relax in comfort on those days when you don't feel like doing much and know that you are always within easy reach of many historic towns, famous sites and wonderful restaurants. The Summer months in Anjou are alive with music and theatre and each town on the Loire takes it in turn to host a Sunday Flea Market - well worth a visit and you never know what treasures you might come away with. In a region with so many wineries there is always the opportunity to have a tour and a wine tasting. Don’t leave without seeing the underground caves of the producers of the much loved sparkling Saumur wines and discover their history and secrets and, of course, have a degustation at the end of the visit! Also well worth a visit as is the ancient troglodyte village and underground workings of Rochemenier which was home to several families until as recently as the early 1900s. Step back in time with a visit to the famous pleasure palaces, gardens and fortresses of the Loire…Angers, Chenonceau, Brézé, Montreuil Bellay to name but a few, and some are still home to aristocratic French families. In Doué la Fontaine (15 minutes away from Nueil) you will find everything that a French country town has on offer (weekly market, banks, a full facility sports centre with indoor pool, amazing Patisseries, restaurants and several supermarkets etc.) as well as a Roman arena where every July they host the internationally famous Festival of the Roses ...Doué being the foremost rose growing and exporting area in France. The BioParc (not your ordinary zoo) housed in a former quarry in Doué la Fontaine is home to a great many rare animals all happily housed in a very naturalistic setting and tended by a family who have loving maintained it for 3 generations. Tourist information Offices in Doué la Fontaine or Saumur can guide you through the wealth of things to do and see.
