CLICK FOR INTERACTIVE MAP33 Reviews 1hour south of Chinon is the beautiful castle of Rivau. You have to drive there (exit st maure) but it is worth it as the gardens are really beautiful ! I went there with my kids and they loved it,...
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18 Reviews Place Plumereau is the central square of Tours. It is the most picturesque and busiest place in Tours. Restaurants here are affordable, contrary to the habit of raising the price like hell in central...
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40 Reviews Amateurs of the architecture of the end of the XIX century cannot pass by the extravagant pseudo-Byzantian basils. Sacred Martin's relics is based in a crypt. A legend tells us that he was a soldier...
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13 Reviews I would have to admit that it's quite a while since I studied French at high school. One of our books was called 'La Belle France' and one of the few things I can recall from it was a photo of...
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2 Reviews Loire - the river of the French kings. The history of France was managed on coasts of this small but very important river. Earlier it was navigable within all the year. Now its channel is essentially...
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3 Reviews The building of the museum is the former archbishop palace in Tours. One of France best provincial museum, it houses wide range collections of painting and rugs from the great houses of Touraine...
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2 Reviews Aquarium of Turen is the biggest in Europe aquarium of fresh-water fishes. I visited such a big aquarium for the first time. To tell the truth I chosed an excursion to this aquarium because castles...
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1 Review and 57 Opinions Well so far so good I guess. We just arrived last night and we have not had a chance to head into...
1 Review and 336 Opinions Words cannot describe the pleasure that I felt at this hotel! The owners are AMAZING, the area...
Bicycling in the Loire - Loire a velo
Beausoleil Says: For bicycle touring in France, I found an incredibly useful web site . . . oddly found it from the Peugeot Open-Europe automobile lease folks. The web site...
didier06 Says: Chambord is the largest castle in the Loire valley and very recognizable for its French renaissance architecture. This castle was built by the king Francois...
didier06 Says: It was built in 1513 by Katherine BRICONNET and her husband Thomas BOHIER, they destroyed a former fortified mill on the river " Le Cher" and retains only the...
didier06 Says: In the fifteenth century, the bueil family build a castle on the site of a former stronghold.After some different owners, the castle became in 1885 the property...
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Blois is one of the small cities in the Loire Valley with a nice old part (Quartier Vieux Blois), a beautiful cathedral and an interesting castle with a...
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Q: Sorry, I have asked many questions re this problem but HELP PLEASE, we decided to use Loche as a base for a 5 day stay. We have to...

A: I think you are spreading yourself too widely including Bayeux in the 5 days. 2 by 6 hours wipes out one day by the time you add getting to and from the train station if...
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Day 1: We drove from Antwerp to the Loire Valley near Orleans in about 5 hours (500 km) and arrived in Beaugency at noon. We had a nice stroll through town and afterwards a great lunch at 'Le Patio',...
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Where All the Great Chateaux Are!

What a nondescript name for a Region of France that contains so many priciple tourist sites. Not only are almost all of Les Grand Chateaux ici, mais la ville de Chartres which contains the greatest......
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Centre is the center of France

Centre is south and a tiny bit west of Paris. It is composed of six districts and all are named after their principal river or rivers. Two of the rivers are the Loire and the Loir. This is not a...
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Loire Valley - Garden of France

As roaring as careless, Loire give its name to a region that represent the unique French style, a region of peaceful grace, temperance and sweetness, a really blessed place. Anywhere you turn your...
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The country of the LOIRE valley castles spans on three ancients provinces, Orléanais, Anjou et Touraine. There is no exhaustive list of these castles, most of them were built or remodeled during the...
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