Sologne museum
Some aspects of the Sologne culture deserve a profound explanation. Living but unknown traditions are often studied by keen amateurs...
Montsoreau castle
With the confluence of the Loire and Vienne, with the limit of Anjou and of Touraine, Montsoreau allured ...
Chambord castle
Chambord, which measures 156 meters by 117 meters and has 440 rooms, is the largest of all the Loire castles. In terms of sheer scale, it foreshadows Versailles...
Amboise castle
Built on a rock headland dominating the city of Amboise and the Loire, this old medieval fortress preserved this time an enclosure, which contains the actual castle...
Chaumont sur Loire castle
Situated on a promontory overlooking the Loire, Chaumont's disposition is similar to that of Amboise. From the terrace, the view of the Loire valley is wonderful. A lovely park surrounds the castle...
Valençay castle
Valençay is berrichon by its geographical situation. But the castle is attached to the Loire Valley by the time of its construction and its vast dimensions...
Blois castle
Blois is one of the landmarks of the Middle Ages. Early on, a powerful count settled in the town of Blois. In 1391, the estate was bought by the Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI. The historians of the time provide some rather juicy gossip about the deal....
Saumur castle
The castle of Saumur is built on a height which orders the Loire Valley. Saumur is in the beginning a strengthened site. A main tower of square plan occupied the slope...
The Jacques Cœur Palace in Bourges
Jacques Cœur would probably not hold the place in French history that he does were it not for the many constructions he had built throughout France. He had "houses", lodges and trading posts built throughout the kingdom. It is, in this way, that he left his mark...
Chenonceau
The current castle was built of 1513 has 1521 by Thomas Bohier, receiver of Finances under Charles VIII, Louis XII and François 1st. The acquisition of Chenonceau by Bohier is a true Balzac drama...
Royal Dungeon of Loches
Fatherland of Alfred de Vigny, Loches rises on banks of Indre. The central part of the city preserved its aspect of the Middle Ages: strengthened a "city" reduced to two of its three primitive enclosures crowns...
Serrant castle
The sumptuous castle of Serrant, whose brown schist contrasts with white tuffeau, has much personality. Surrounded of broad water ditches, it is located at about fifteen kilometers in the west of Angers, in the commune of Saint-Georges sur Loire...
Azay le Rideau castle
With the Middle Ages, the lords of Tours build a castle on an island in the medium of the Indre river to protect the passage from the road carrying out of Tours to Chinon. In 1119, the lord Ridel of Azay gives to the city his name of Azay le Rideau...
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The Loire castles evoke the color of slate and the stone of tuffeau.
The inheritance of our area is fabulous on the architectural and historical level. Numbers these castles are in fact rather far away from the Loire; they are dispersed in Blésois, Touraine, Anjou, Berry and Orléanais.
Their origins correspond to requirements of defense. Indeed they are built on strengthened natural sites, almost always with the crossroads of waterways and terrestrial, on heights where people can supervise the neighbourhoods with kilometers with the round and stop the progression of the enemy....
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Sologne museum.
Some aspects of the Sologne culture deserve a profound explanation. Living but unknown traditions are often studied by keen amateurs. Temporary exhibitions of traditions were first organised...
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The Loire, world inheritance of humanity.
On November 30, 2000, the Loire Valley - from Sully sur Loire (Loiret) to Chalonnes sur Loire (Maine et Loire) -, that is to say 260 km of the longest river of France, was classified world inheritance by UNESCO.
You would like to come to visit our beautiful area...
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 The Loire Valley wine trail.This large river that the summers appease so much so that it loses in a too vast sand bed, than the winters hustle spates and ceaseless falls, this river with the long course which, central Solid mass with the spray of the Atlantic, digs its furrow unrelentingly, is today still the last wild river of Europe. This large river, which worked its banks like a garden, made its valley the valley of the kings and queens, the valley of the softness of living, where the sky is tender and the lights sweet...
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SAINT BARTHELEMY
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GUYANE
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Chateau du Rivau
37120 Chinon
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37220 L'Ile-Bouchard Theneuil
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37460 Orbigny
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