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Sunset at Muides sur Loire.
Looking at the photos of our holiday in France a few years ago I saw this forgotten picture. Worth the effort of uploading I think :-)
Argenton sur Creuse, comme son nom ne l'indique pas, se trouve dans l'Indre, mais c'est bien la Creuse qui la traverse.
I loved that sunset, was looking for a nice foreground element and this little boat works well with the reflection! What do you think? :-)
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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
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 RhĂ´ne.
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.
Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast.
The White and Blue city keeps a historical center registered in the UNESCO, and is home to the Vieux-Tours, a patrimonial site. The garden city has a green heritage and an urban landscape strongly influenced by its natural space. The historic city that is nicknamed "Le Petit Paris" and its region by its history and culture has always been a land of birth or host to many personalities, international sporting events, and is a university city with more than 30,000 students in 2019. Tours is a popular culinary city with specialties such as: rillettes, rillons, Touraine vineyards, AOC Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine cheeses and nougats. The city is also the end-point of the annual Paris–Tours cycle race.