Château de Créans

Once accessible via drawbridges, a castle with two gates was built on the eastern moat in 1474. It has retained the archways from its medieval defensive system. The gunports date from the 16th century. In 1734, the Jesuits of La Flèche bought the château to use it as a convalescent home and built a larger building with three wings on the ruins of the former Seigneurial dwelling. Paul d'Estournelles de Constant (1852-1924), mayor, member of parliament, then senator and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909, acquired the property in 1892 and had it restored by the architect Henri Laffillée. Access to the courtyard, the old château, the fuie, the terrace overlooking the Loir and the entire park.