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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 Loire Valley is listed UNESCO World Heritage site since 30 November 2000 under the reference 933bis. [1] The justification for the inscription of the territory is based on several criteria: its architectural heritage which includes the Châteaux of the Loire (criterion I), its exceptional cultural landscape (criterion II) and its cultural monuments, witnesses of the Renaissance and the ...
Belmont-de-la-Loire: 42016 42720 La Bénisson-Dieu: 42017 42660 Le Bessat: 42018 42520 Bessey: 42019 42130 Boën-sur-Lignon: 42020 42210 Boisset-lès-Montrond: 42021 42560 Boisset-Saint-Priest: 42022 42160 Bonson: 42023 42220 Bourg-Argental: 42025 42460 Boyer: 42026 42720 Briennon: 42027 42260 Bully: 42028 42220 Burdignes: 42029 42510 ...
Valdeorras is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense. The overall population of this local region is 25,500 (2019). [1] Municipalities.
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).
Centre-Val de Loire (/ ˌ v æ l d ə ˈ l w ɑː r, ˌ v ɑː l-/; French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁə val də lwaʁ], [Notes 1] lit. ' Centre-Loire Valley ') or Centre Region (French: région Centre, [ʁeʒjɔ̃ sɑ̃tʁ]), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France.
The Loire gives its name to six departments: Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, and Saône-et-Loire. The lower-central swathe of its valley straddling the Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire regions was added to the World Heritage Sites list of UNESCO on December 2, 2000.