Château de Chazeuil
Reserve
Aerial view of a long two-storey house clad in timber, its lawn and drive, surrounded by trees

Family day

Le PAL with children: a zoo and theme park 40 minutes from the estate

The best-known family day out in the Allier: animals from five continents and rides in one park.

About 43 km by road, around 41 minutes from the estate

Le PAL is a zoo and an amusement park in one, at Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre, near Dompierre-sur-Besbre. According to the park it has more than 1,000 animals from five continents and 31 attractions, over 40 hectares.

Take care with the name: Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre, the home of Le PAL, is not Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, the wine town much closer to the estate.

What to do

  • See the animals and the rides in a single ticketed day
  • Pair it with a slow next day at the pool and with the estate's own farm animals

Questions

Where is Le PAL?
At Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre in the Allier (postal code 03290, near Dompierre-sur-Besbre), about 43 km by road from the Château de Chazeuil.
Is Le PAL a zoo or a theme park?
Both. One site holds the animal park and the rides.

Where to stay

Come back to the park

Holiday homes for 3 to 7 guests in the 35-hectare park of the Château de Chazeuil, with a pool and a wood-fired sauna on the estate. The season runs from May to the end of November.

See the houses

Life on the estateThe château

Sources

Road distances and times were calculated from the estate's coordinates with OpenStreetMap data, and are a guide only.