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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).
Château de la Bégraisiere, in Saint-Herblain; Château de Blain, in Blain; Château de Bois Chevalier, in Legé; Château de Bois-Briand, in Nantes; Château du Bois-Rouaud, in Chéméré; Château du Bouffay destroyed in the 19th century, in Nantes; Château de la Bourgonnière destroy in 2006, in Saint-Herblain; Château de la Bretesche, in ...
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.
Château-du-Loir (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dy lwaʁ]; literally 'Château of the Loir') is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir. [2] Château-du-Loir station has rail connections to Tours and Le Mans.
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 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]
Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et-Vilaine. Mayenne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. The northern two thirds correspond to the western part of the former province of ...