Loire Valley
The Loire Valley, spanning 280 kilometres, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Valley with an elevation of 54 metres
- Description: French World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Val de Loire”, “Vallee de la Loire”, and “Vallée de la Loire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art Harbour and Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art.
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art Harbour
Photo: Suavemarimagno, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Château de Montsoreau is a Flamboyant Gothic castle in the Loire Valley, directly built in the Loire riverbed. It is located in the market town of Montsoreau, in the Maine-et-Loire département of France, close to Saumur, Chinon, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Candes-Saint-Martin.
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum Contemporary Art is a private museum open to the public in Montsoreau, France. It opened 8 April 2016. The permanent collection exhibited at Château de Montsoreau consists of Philippe Méaille's collection of works by the conceptual art collective Art & Language.
Fontevraud Abbey
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French Duchy of Anjou.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Montsoreau and Fontevrault.
Montsoreau
Photo: Mariekro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Montsoreau is a village in the Loire Valley, in Pays de la Loire. It's listed amongst the most beautiful villages of France.
Fontevrault
Photo: Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye is a commune in the western French department of Maine-et-Loire. It is situated both in the Loire Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site between Chalonnes-sur-Loire and Sully-sur-Loire, and the Loire Anjou Touraine French regional natural park.
Turquant
Village
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
Turquant is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Loire Valley
- Categories: natural region of France and river valley
- Location: France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Loire Valley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وادي اللوار”
- Armenian: “Լուարայի հովիտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Luara vadisi”
- Basque: “Loira ibarra”
- Belarusian: “Даліна Люары”
- Breton: “Traoñ al Liger”
- Breton: “Val de Loire”
- Bulgarian: “Долина на Лоара”
- Catalan: “Castells del Loira”
- Catalan: “Vall del Loira”
- Cebuano: “Val de Loire”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔城堡”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔河城堡”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔河流域”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔河谷 (自然区)”
- Chinese: “卢瓦尔河谷”
- Chinese: “盧瓦爾河流域”
- Chinese: “羅亞爾河流域”
- Danish: “Loiredalen”
- Dutch: “Loiredal”
- Dutch: “Loirevallei”
- Dutch: “Val de Loire”
- Esperanto: “Luarvalo”
- Esperanto: “Valo de Luaro”
- French: “val de Loire”
- French: “Val de Loire”
- French: “Vallée de la Loire”
- Galician: “Val do Loira”
- German: “Loiretal”
- German: “Tal der Loire”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Λίγηρα”
- Hebrew: “עמק הלואר”
- Hindi: “लवार घाटी”
- Hindi: “लोयर घाटी”
- Icelandic: “Leirudalurinn”
- Irish: “Gleann an Loire”
- Italian: “Valle della Loira”
- Japanese: “シュリー・シュル・ロワールとシャロンヌ間のロワール渓谷”
- Japanese: “ロワール渓谷”
- Korean: “루아르 계곡”
- Lithuanian: “Luaros slėnis”
- Maltese: “Wied ta‘ Loire”
- Maltese: “Wied ta’ Loire”
- Northern Luri: “سانتر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loiredalen”
- Norwegian: “Loiredalen”
- Persian: “دره لوآر”
- Polish: “Dolina Loary”
- Polish: “Dolina nad Loarą”
- Polish: “Zamki nad Loarą”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Loire”
- Romanian: “Valea Loarei”
- Russian: “Долина Луары”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dolina Loire”
- Slovenian: “Dolina Loare”
- Spanish: “Valle del Loira”
- Spanish: “Vallee de la Loire”
- Spanish: “Vallée de la Loire”
- Swedish: “Loiredalen”
- Thai: “Châteaux of the Loire Valley”
- Thai: “Loire Valley”
- Thai: “Val de Loire”
- Thai: “ปราสาทและวังแห่งลุ่มแม่น้ำลัวร์”
- Thai: “ปราสาทแห่งลุ่มแม่น้ำลัวร์”
- Thai: “ลุ่มแม่น้ำลัวร์”
- Thai: “วังแห่งลุ่มแม่น้ำลัวร์”
- Turkish: “Loire Vadisi”
- Ukrainian: “Долина Луари”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Loire”
- Western Panjabi: “لوائر وادی”
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