The best MTB trails around La Ferté-Saint-Aubin

On 12/05/2026, the trail along the Cosson, starting from Boucles 02 and 16, near the castle, is impassable. Works?

Château de la Turpinière - used as a hunting lodge at the end of the 18th century

The parish church, dedicated to Saint Stephen, belonged in the 13th century to the Abbey of Micy near Orléans. It was rebuilt at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries. It consists of a long nave, 35 meters in length and over 9 meters wide, ending in a three-sided apse. Its walls, built of rubble and rendered brick, are reinforced by dressed stone buttresses. The cornice at the base of the roof and the window and door surrounds are also made of molded dressed stone. The double-lancet windows with trefoil topped by a figure-eight shaped bilobe are identical, except for those on the west facade and the central window, which are more elaborate, featuring three lancets while retaining the same molding. An addition was made at the beginning of the 16th century. On the north side stands an imposing seigneurial chapel and a massive bell tower with eight flat buttresses, two on each face, all built of brick. Ashlar is reserved for the buttresses of the bell tower and alternates with brick in the buttresses of the chapel; it is used for framing the openings, the windows, and the sloping sides of the chapel's gable. A lozenge-shaped decoration of black bricks on a background of pink bricks has been preserved on the lower level and on part of the gable of this chapel. The chapel was the only vaulted part of the church, undoubtedly financed by Jean or Claude d'Estampes, lord of La Ferté-Nabert. The rest of the building was covered by a panelled vault, the replacement of which with a false ribbed vault of plaster resulted in the disappearance of the tie beams and king posts and ruined the structural integrity of the roof frame. This artificial, cold, and superficial decoration of the upper sections deprives the interior of the interplay of tie beams and king posts. These, in their rhythm, corresponded to the lateral openings and reflected the robust structure of the timber frame that protected the building. A comprehensive restoration is planned. Initially, for the north chapel—masonry, roofing, and timber frame—the French Heritage Society (Sauvegarde de l’Art français) provided €30,490 in 2001.

Great cani-mountain biking route with a section of road

Very clean and smooth path along the edge of the military grounds.

several sculptures in the woods

Château typical of the old stately residences of Sologne with its brick facades decorated with diamonds and its moats which merge into ponds. Some estimate its construction at the end of the 16th century, others speak of the end of the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century. Modifications and restorations were made subsequently. Thus, the bridges which currently allow crossing the moats were made of wood until the 19th century and the current chapel dates from 1810. Its best-known owner was Auguste Prouvensal de Saint-Hilaire, who made numerous discoveries of Brazilian flora. He died in 1853 in La Turpinière.

Built in the 16th century then reworked in the 19th century, this castle surrounded by a moat belonged to Napoleon III after passing into the hands of his ancestor, François de Beauharnais and then the French ambassador to Constantinople, the Count of Choiseul-Gouffier. It is now private property.