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Vendôme is a former city which shines on a town of about 30000 inhabitants. Harmed by the TGV, it is a pleasant and quiet city in only 40 minutes of Paris and an excellent point of access to visit the Loire valley.

The city is built on a privileged site, the Dormouse, which spreads the numerous arms and canals, and is leaned in the South in an abrupt hillside. The best means to approach this city-garden is to discover it since the terrace of the castle of Bourbon-Vendôme. The castle was formerly besieged by Henri IV, still dominate the city and calls back here the influential role of the family of Dukes de Vendôme the 15th and in 16th centuries.
An unique heritage of green spaces, on hundred of hectares today flowery and maintained with passion Vendôme canned food for the 17th century. They are worth to him being "National Grand Prix of fleurissement" since 1994.
In the center of this case of greenery rises the abbey church of the Trinity, a remarkable building of blazing Gothic art, vestige of a famous monastery of the Middle Ages. Place Martinmas, houses with timber framings line the terraces of the cafes which watches the statue of Rochambeau. The marshal, born in Vendôme, commands the French troops sent by Louis XVI to aid of the Americans, and contributed to the victory of Yorktown (1781), during the war for independence of the United States.

Finally, Vendôme and the vendômois was places of stays of big classic writers, such Ronsard and Balzac. Pierre de Ronsard has his bust in the park of the secondary school Ronsard, where he was student during his adolescence. "Prince of poets" will return frequently throughout his life to the city to draw it his inspiration.