Nérac, une balade de la Garenne au château Henri IV

This walk starts in the shady park of La Garenne on the banks of the Baïse river and then crosses the river before going through the historic streets of Nérac around the Henri IV castle. It owes its existence to Marguerite de Valois, grandmother of Henri IV, who settled there in 1530 after her marriage to Henri II, King of Navarre. She made Nerac an academy welcoming outcasts such as Lefèvre d'Etaples, Clément Marot and probably Calvin. In 1548 Jeanne d'Albret, their daughter, married Antoine de Bourbon with whom she had a son, the future king of France. In 1572, Henri married the daughter of the King of France and Catherine de Medici, the second Marguerite de Valois, better known as Queen Margot. It is to her that we owe the creation of a walk in the park of the Garenne. This circuit ends with a passage in the small Nerac, which overlooks the river, right bank.