Not the most enviable fate befell the castle of Plessis-Les-tours: the former residence of king Louis XI after the French revolution was sold to a private person, and he ordered to take it apart for a brick, but still carried out his intentions almost completely. From the castle there was only about a quarter is the southern part of the Central building with a tower, which housed the Royal apartments. The most interesting thing to see in this castle there is a room in which Louis XI died, and the casemates of the Royal prison with iron cells.

The castle is located a few kilometres from the centre of tours, in the suburbs of La riche. The castle was built by Louis XI, who in 1468 bought one of the estates, called Monti-lès-tours and renamed monarch, and lived here in solitude until 1483. The castle also went down in history as the meeting place of Henry III and Henry of Navarre, who had agreed on joint action against Catholics. In the XVII century the residence was abandoned in the next century there is a hospice that gave shelter to the sick, the poor and the homeless.

In the XIX century in the surviving part of the castle housed a farm and a workshop for the production of a hunting shot. In the beginning of XX century it housed a laboratory for the manufacture of vaccines. Only in 1927, the castle has acquired the status of a historical monument.

At the end of the last century the castle was owned by the theater troupe Cano-Lopez, and now the castle can be visited during any cultural events. Managed to reconstruct the original appearance of the castle, its layout is stored in the bar of the theatre. In addition, you can stroll through the adjoining Park – when near the castle grew a lot of mulberry trees, and this played a big role in the development of the local silk-noil spinning.