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Sunset on the Loire River from the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art. The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), [1] is a valley located in the middle stretch of the Loire river in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.
The list includes at this date 160 communes distributed in 2 regions (Pays de la Loire and Center-Val de Loire) and 4 departments (Maine-et-Loire, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire) on a distance of 280 km long stretching from Sully-sur-Loire to Chalonnes.
The châteaux of the Loire Valley (French: châteaux de la Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the river Loire in France. They illustrate Renaissance ideals of design in France. [1]
Château de la Bretesche: 15th century Reconstructed Reconstructed 19th century Château de Careil: 14-16th century Substantially intact Château des ducs de Bretagne: 1466 Restored Ville de Nantes: Houses Nantes History Museum. Château de Châteaubriant: 11-16th century Intact Medieval castle remodelled as Renaissance château.
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Loire department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: Andrézieux-Bouthéon Boën-sur-Lignon Charlieu Le Coteau Feurs Firminy Montbrison Le Pilat Renaison Rive-de-Gier Roanne-1 Roanne-2 Saint-Chamond Saint-Étienne-1 Saint-Étienne-2 Saint-Étienne-3 Saint-Étienne-4 Saint-Étienne-5 Saint ...
The château is situated in the commune of Le Lude in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire and stands at the crossroads of Anjou, Maine and Touraine. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France , still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years.
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Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pe.i d(ə) la lwaʁ]; lit. ' Lands of the Loire ') is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).