THE  SOLOGNE

Not long ago the New York Times wrote as an headline :
 "An amazing wild country 2 hours South from Paris !"...
The Sologne is hidden under the Loire, South of Orléans.
 His capital is Romorantin-Lanthenay where is located our hotel.
 It's a famous area in France not only for its Tarte Tatin but also for its natural environment.
 It used to be the favorite place for kings to hunt and
 is now the favorite place for secret, nature and quietness lovers.
Its sandy land is giving a romantic landscape with forest moors,
lots of ponds, marshes, heathers clearings and lots willow trees.
The landscape is like a wild garden.

Today it's an ideal place for bicycle riding or bird watching.
It's one of the best birding areas in central France.
The bird life is really abundant around Sologne especially in the ponds district
 around Marcilly en Gault and Saint-Viâtre.
 You can easily see numerous species, including shoveler, gadwall, teal, garganey and pochard ducks; great and little bitterns; purple and grey herons; night-herons; cormorants; marsh harriers; great crested and black-necked grebes; black kites; booted eagles; goshawk and honey buzzards; black terns; baillon's crakes; sedge, great reed, grasshopper and Savi's warblers; nightjars and woodlarks;
 and grey-faced and black woodpeckers.
An association "Sologne Nature Environnement" located in Romorantin is organizing bird watching visits in Sologne all year round and on special requests.

It can be also very pleasant to drive in the Sologne from one village to another
 where are spead thema houses :
 the dear' house at Ligny le Ribault, the pond's house at Saint-Viâtre, the "braconnage" house at Chaon, the rural handcraft at Tigy, and others charming villages presenting contempory art and antics such as Nançay or Brinon-sur-Sauldre...

From the beginning of October, game and venison are appearing on our Menu :
wild Duck, grey Partridge, Hare, Dear and Venison.