Tourist attractions Montargis

Planted in 1991, these gardens have now reached full maturity. Designed by landscape gardener Alain Richert and occupying 6ha, they include an orchard , a vegetable garden and ornamental garden . The ornamental gardens marry French, English and I..

From two successive bridges, a view of two canals, with old houses and wash houses standing at the water’s edge, while small boats planted with flowers move gently to and fro: the serenity of Montargis.

At the end is an elegant metal footbridge offering a pleasant view of the two locks.

The houses were built on the site of the razed towers of the town's old rampart and are bordered by a narrow canal.

Dedicated to local artist Anne-Louis Girodet , a favourite pupil of David, one of the giants of neo-Classical painting. In the Girodet collection are 20 paintings by the artist including a copy of the Funeral of Atala , which inspired Chateaubria..

Now renovated and the site of a museum recalling the extremely tough trade of the tanner in bygone days.

The museum pays particular attention to the Gallo-Roman sites of Sceaux-en-Gâtinais and Les Closiers, where a religious complex, theatre and necropolis have been discovered. Material from the Merovingian burials of Grand-Bezout. Regional prehistory a..

The museum has exhibits of tanners' tools. On the upper floor are rural costumes and headdresses which will enable visitors to differentiate between an everyday fonchon , a caline worn on outings in the town and the embroidered headdress worn on s..