L'Académie de la Bière

Chartres


One of the liveliest places in Chartres of an evening is this fabulous pub. It takes its beer seriously (nine rotate on the taps, with more than 150 by the bottle) and also serves a wide range of whiskies and rums. Live music regularly rocks the vaulted stone cellar.


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Nearby Chartres attractions

1. Portail Royal

0.08 MILES

The west, north and south entrances of the Cathédrale Notre Dame have superbly ornamented triple portals, but the west entrance, known as the Portail…

2. Tour Nord

0.09 MILES

Climbing 350 steps up to the 112m-high Tour Nord (aka Clocher Neuf; New Bell Tower) of the Cathédrale Notre Dame is well worth it. A 70m-high platform on…

3. Clocher Vieux

0.09 MILES

Along with the the Portail Royal, the main Romanesque feature of the Cathédrale Notre Dame is the 105m-high Clocher Vieux (also called the Tour Sud or…

4. Cathédrale Notre Dame

0.09 MILES

One of Western civilisation’s crowning architectural achievements, the 130m-long Cathédrale Notre Dame de Chartres is renowned for its brilliant-blue…

5. Centre International du Vitrail

0.11 MILES

After viewing the stained glass in Chartres’ cathedral, nip into the town’s International Stained-Glass Centre, in a half-timbered former granary, to see…

6. Musée des Beaux-Arts

0.13 MILES

Chartres’ fine-arts museum, accessed via the gate next to Cathédrale Notre Dame’s north portal, is in the former Palais Épiscopal (Bishop’s Palace), built…

7. Cathédrale Notre Dame Crypt

0.14 MILES

The 100m crypt of Cathédrale Notre Dame, a tombless Romanesque structure built in 1024 around a 9th-century predecessor, is the largest in France. Tours…

8. Église St-Aignan

0.26 MILES

Église St-Aignan is interesting for its wooden barrel-vault roof (1625), arcaded nave and painted interior of faded blue and gold floral motifs (c 1870)…