The Bourges area, a 1500km² piece of land in the heart of the department of the Cher, offers a large variety of landscapes. They are the result of the association of topographical, hydrographical and agricultural elements. It is true that the dominating image of the "Champagne Berrichonne" is largely cereal farming and there are also large landscaped areas.

In the North, the forests of Allogny, Saint-Palais and Menetou-Salon are located on the edge of the Sologne, and are next to landscapes with orchards and vineyards. The Forestin orchard covers small hills at the foot of which streams run and then join numerous ponds, which are used to water the orchards. The area where there is mixed farming, which is a transition between the « Champagne Berrichonne » and the area with forests and orchards offer mixed landscapes, structured by a variety of plant shapes such as hedges, groves, trees-singles and in rows. The mosaic of small parcels in the Menetou-Salon vineyards gives the image of a very large garden.

Two sites offer undeniable viewpoints: the northern part of the country overlooks like a balcony the cereal-growing limestone plateau, formed by the Yèvre, the Auron, the Cher and the Arnon, which are or some architectural, industrial and environmental interest; the “cuesta”, geological breakdown located east of the area between the “Champagne Berrichonne” and the valley of Germigny, with its enclosed fields.

Other qualitative or even remarkable sites, are spread over the « The Bourges Area » territory: the Berry Canal, constructed in 1841 to join the coal basin in Commentry to the upper Loire, offers diverse surroundings along its way from the North-West to the South-East of the territory; the « Marais de la Voiselle « (swamps) in Bourges are in the process of being classified. This is a remarkably rich as well as humid area, with its size and its privileged location in the middle of an urban area. The cathedral, on its promontory in the centre of the “Pays », can be seen from numerous places and is a symbol of the identity of the territory.

In the «The Bourges Area », there are numerous sites valuable for their fauna and flora, such as the forests in Allogny and their scattered forests, the lawns favouring limestone, the shooting polygon, the European sites for bats, the quarries in Bourges and Trouy, as well as the valleys, including the Yèvre valley, downstream from Bourges, which is classified as « Zone de protection Importante pour la Conservation de Oiseaux (reserve for birds). There is also the Cher valley and hillsides in Lunery, registered as « Zones d'Intérêt Ecologique, Faunistique et Floristique » (Protected area for the environment, fauna and flora), the « Ile du Val d'Auron » (island) and its surroundings, in Bourges, which legally protect the biotope.

The variety and the richness of the landscapes in the « The Bourges Area » offer the possibility, within a short distance, to go from an open, cultivated landscape to a closed wooded landscape, then from hills covered with orchards to humid zones at the bottom of valleys…, from one type of surroundings to another, from one world to another.