Beaulieu-les-Loches
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Just across the Indre from Loches is the village of BEAULIEU-LES-LOCHES – an extraordinary, little-known place, thoroughly medieval in appearance, with its parish church built into the spectacular ruins of an abbey contemporary with Loches' donjon. Its other church, St-Pierre, holds the bones of Foulques Nerra, the eleventh-century count of Anjou responsible for Loches's grisly donjon. Next to the ruined abbey, there's a charming low-budget hotel, the Hôtel de Beaulieu, 3 rue Foulques-Nerra (tel 02.47.91.60.80; €30–40), with a little bistro next door.
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