Bed & Breakfast Le Patio de Xénia

A guest room in Charité-sur-Loire

La Charité-sur-Loire, historic and medieval town. It has just under 5,000 inhabitants. The city offers a large and diversified offering with its 145 commercial cells.

Picturesque staircases, medieval spirit and words painted on stone, your discovery of the banks of the Loire has led you to La Charité-sur-Loire! The curious and book lovers will inevitably fall under the charm of this atypical city surrounded by ramparts. As for the pilgrims, their spiritual experience will take strength within the priory, an essential stop on the path leading to Santiago de Compostela.

AS SETTING: a major Cluniac site
The priory, founded in 1059 by the powerful order of Cluny, is the nucleus around which the city will develop. Spared from post-revolutionary destruction, it was restored in the 2000s. This major site of Burgundian Romanesque art is an unmissable place full of history.
Created in the middle of the 11th century, the Church of Notre-Dame du Prieuré de la Charité has been listed as a UNESCO world heritage site since 1998 as a major stopover on the paths to Santiago de Compostela.

A PRESERVED ENVIRONMENT: the Loire and the Val de Loire Nature Reserve
As it flows, the Loire, the last wild river in Europe, creates multiple channels that wind between mobile sandbanks and wooded islands.
This “river dynamics” constitutes the Val de Loire Nature Reserve, a true Eden for rich and varied fauna and flora.