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Bridge across the Loire in Tours, France
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
Aujourd'hui, le trafic commercial a totalement cessé .
Ces bateaux participent à la navigation touristique et aussi à des festivités sur le thème de la Loire .
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
Possibly the most recognisable Châteaux in the world, the Château de Chambord - come visit it with me on a photographic tour of the Loire Valley. www.aperturetours.com/normandy-and-loire-valley-workshop/
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...
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.