The Loire Valley is a living laboratory: Leonardo da Vinci designed his wackiest inventions here, and kings made it the crucible of the French Renaissance. Clinging to the riverbanks, the Chateau de Chambord and its neighbours great and small tell the fabulous story of this artistic effervescence – also expressed by gardens such as those at Chaumont-sur-Loire, which is both a chateau and the landscape laboratory of the future.
Loire Valley
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The Loire Valley: what to do, what to see…
FUNDAMENTALS
This region of France does it big: 280 kilometers (173 miles) of landscapes of classified UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As a backdrop, Europe’s longest river, the Loire, flows past some 20 castles open to visitors—there are hundreds of stories and histories to be discovered, fragrant gardens to inhale, forest to explore and wines to taste. Go back in time in the Loire Valley, always ready and waiting to offer you its jewel-like heritage.
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Loire Valley
Loire Valley
