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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).
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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.
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.
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 ...
A France 3 Pays de la Loire set at La Folle Journée. The local press is dominated by the Ouest-France group, which owns the area's two major newspapers: Ouest-France and Presse-Océan. Ouest-France, based in Rennes, covers north-western France and is the country's best-selling newspaper. Presse-Océan, based in Nantes, covers Loire-Atlantique.
Loire-Atlantique (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ atlɑ̃tik]; Gallo: Louére-Atantique; Breton: Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: Loire-Inférieure, [3] Breton: Liger-Izelañ) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of 1,429,272 in 2019. [4]
Monuments historiques (official historical monuments) of the Pays de la Loire region in southwestern France. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.