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Loches (; ) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
It is situated maps.google.fr southeast of Tours by road, on the left bank of the river Indre.
In late April of 1793 during the French at a time when the The Mountain were gaining in power, the censorship of newspapers by the Montagnard provoke a protest from the town of Loches who complained to the Convention that 15 newspapers had been banned in the department including Girondins supporting newspapers such as that of Gorsas and Jean-Louis CarraJonathan Israel, Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre, pp. 429-30.
The church of St Ours dates from the tenth century to the twelfth century; among its distinguishing features are the huge stone surmounting the nave and the beautiful carving of the west door. It contains the tomb of Agnès Sorel.
The royal lodge, built by Charles VII of France and once used as the subprefecture, contains the oratory of Anne of Brittany. It was here on 11 May 1429 that Joan of Arc arrived, fresh from her historic victory at Orleans, to meet the king.
The donjon includes, besides the ruined keep (12th century), the Martelet, celebrated as the prison of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, who died there in 1508, and the Tour Ronde, built by Louis XI of France and containing the famous iron cages in which state prisoners, including according to a story now discredited, the inventor Cardinal Balue, were confined.
Loches has a town hall and several houses of the Renaissance period. The town hall was constructed after royal approval by Francis 1st in 1515.
On the right stream bed of the Indre, opposite the town, is the village of Beaulieu-lès-Loches, once the seat of a .
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