Son of an excavator of Bourges, Jacques Coeur (1400-1456) As early as 1432 travels to the East. From its counters in Montpellier and Marseilles, it manages a real commercial network around the Mediterranean. His fortune allowed him to finance the last campaigns of the Hundred Years' War, but he would be worth the jealousy of the court, his arrest and finally death in exile.
Today, the tourist road with its name brings together 18 sites and monuments.: private castles, museums, abbey form a varied route to discover the Berry (photos, models, objects pay a fine tribute to this extraordinary route of communication).
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