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Le château en bref
Rochecotte Castle is a late 18th-century residence located in the village of Saint-Patrice, near Langeais, in Indre-et-Loire.
It has been inscribed on the list of historic monuments since 22 May 1948.
It underwent several successive refurbishments carried out by its various owners.
A relative of one of them, Boni de Castellane, describes it in these terms:
‘The large Louis XVI château – trained against the slope halfway up the hill overlooking the Loire valley – has both charm and originality. It resembles an Italian villa, with superimposed terraces from which the view extends over blue and grey horizons, landscapes like those in early paintings.’ “I have a true passion for Rochecotte; it is mine, it is the most beautiful view and the most beautiful countryside in the world; in short, it is an air that makes me live lightly, and then I arrange, I turn things around, I embellish, I adapt… I have taken country life quite literally”.
(Letter from the Duchesse de Dino to de Barante, 5 July 1828, cited by Jean-Luc Péchinot in “La duchesse de Dino, dernier amour de Talleyrand”, Le Magazine de La Touraine, no. 55, July 1995, p. 58).
Today, Rochecotte Castle is a 4-star hotel with 39 rooms and a gastronomic restaurant run by the Pasquier sisters. The château offers a varied menu (lunch and dinner), a heated swimming pool, spa treatments, a tea room, as well as a multitude of other services.
