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Le fleuve est navigable par endroits, il est nécessaire de naviguer avec des bateaux à fond plat comme les gabarres,Toues et futreaux
Privately owned, the Château de Bon Hotel in Ligny-le-Ribault is closed to the public. However, we can admire the exterior of the building from the road. Join me on my workshop to discover the lesser-known Châteaus of the Loire Valley - aperturetours.com
The Loire is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world.[4] With a length of 1,006 kilometres (625 mi), it drains 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), more than a fifth of France's land while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
It rises in the southeastern quarter of the French Massif Central in the Cévennes range (in the department of Ardèche) at 1,350 m (4,430 ft) near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at Saint-Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the rivers Nièvre, Maine and the Erdre on its right bank, and the rivers Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, and the Sèvre Nantaise on the left bank.
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. Vineyards and châteaux are found along the banks of the river throughout this section and are a major tourist attraction.
The Loire Valley has been called the "Garden of France" and is studded with over a thousand châteaux, each with distinct architectural embellishments covering a wide range of variations, from the early medieval to the late Renaissance periods. They were originally created as feudal strongholds, over centuries past, in the strategic divide between southern and northern France; now many are privately owned.
Seine, Paris, France.
El Seine es un río europeo de la vertiente atlántica que discurre únicamente por Francia. Con una longitud de casi 776 km es el tercero más largo del país — tras el Loira y el Ródano. Drena una cuenca de 78 650 km², la 3.ª del país y casi un séptimo del territorio francés. Tiene sus fuentes en varios manantiales a 470 msnm en la meseta de Langres, en el departamento de Côte-d'Or, en la región de Borgoña y desemboca en un amplio estuario en El Havre, en la bahía del Sena.
Administrativamente, recorre cuatro regiones francesas —Borgoña-Franco Condado, Gran Este, Île-de-France y Normandía]— y catorce departamentos —Côte-d'Or, Aube, Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Val-de-Marne, Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines, Eure, Sena Marítimo y Calvados—, de los que cuatro llevan su nombre.
Atraviesa algunas ciudades importantes —Troyes, Melun, Ruan— y especialmente la capital, París, que se ha desarrollado sobre sus dos márgenes, y en la que los recorridos en los típicos bateaux mouches son una atracción turística. Hay treinta y siete puentes parisinos que atraviesan el río, como el Pont Louis-Philippe y el Pont Neuf, este último erigido ya en año 1607. Cerca del estuario está el puente de Normandía, uno de los más largos puentes atirantados del mundo, que une El Havre con Honfleur.
The Seine is a European river of the Atlantic slope that runs solely through France. With a length of almost 776 km it is the third longest in the country - after the Loire and the Rhone. It drains a basin of 78 650 km², the 3rd in the country and almost one seventh of the French territory. It has its springs in several springs at 470 meters above sea level in the Langres plateau, in the department of Côte-d'Or, in the Burgundy region and flows into a wide estuary in Le Havre, in the Seine bay.
Administratively, it runs through four French regions -Borgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand-East, Île-de-France and Normandy] -and fourteen departments -Côte-d'Or, Aube, Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Val-de Marne, Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines, Eure, Seine Maritime and Calvados-, of which four bear his name.
It crosses some important cities -Troyes, Melun, Ruan- and especially the capital, Paris, which has developed on its two banks, and in which the tours in the typical bateaux mouches are a tourist attraction. There are thirty-seven Parisian bridges across the river, such as the Pont Louis-Philippe and the Pont Neuf, the latter built in 1607. Near the estuary is the Normandy bridge, one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world, unites Le Havre with Honfleur.
The Devil is in the Details: Blois - Read the article written by my collegue William Lounsbury that sports this, and many other of my images, and see how details fill out the folio of any trip ---- www.aperturetours.com/blog/2020/the-devil-is-in-the-detai...