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Other touristic sites
and curiosities
in the Loire Valley

Other touristic sites
in the Loire Valley



Sites of various cities, regional tourism offices and Institutional organisations often furnish a description of important points of interest in their area.

 

 Cher 18
The route Jacques Coeur  Points of interest and monuments to be discovered in the Berry region, following in the footsteps of Jacques Coeur, the treasurer of king Charles VII.
Castle of "Play" (St-Hilaire-en-Lignières) Museum of country art and traditions.
Photography museum (Gracay-St-Outrille).
Natural history museum (Bourges)


 Indre 36
The route Jacques Coeur Points of interest and monuments to be discovered in the Berry region, following in the footsteps of Jacques Coeur, the treasurer of king Charles VII
Le Val de Creuse - Berry Sud
La Brenne natural parc
Regional natural parcs : parc de la Brenne


 Indre-et-Loire 37
Pagode de Chanteloup (Amboise)
Maurice Dufresne Museum (Azay-le-Rideau) incredible old machine and mechanism museum.
Musée du Veneur (Céré la Ronde) in the Montpoupon castle, venery museum
Archaelogical heritage (Le Grand-Pressigny) Discovery of the widest site of the region, excavations...
Balzac museum, Saché castle (Saché) house of the writer
Ecomusée du véron (savigny-en-Véron) farm museum
Rabelais museum, la Devinière (Seuilly) house of the writer
Prieuré Ronsard, Saint-Cosme (Tours) house of the writer
Hôtel Gouin museum (Tours) 15th-century, Renaissance building.
Musée du Gemmail (Tours) art museum
Villandry gardens (Villandry) Renaissance gardens
Musée du vin de Moncontour (Vouvray)
Regional natural parcs : parc Loire-Anjou-Touraine

 Loir-et-Cher 41
The Valley of the Loir
National stud farm of Blois English version (French version more complete)
Beauval Zoo (Saint Aignan) discover its white lions.
Aliotis (Villeherviers) Aquariums of Sologne
Musée de Sologne (Romoratin-Lanthenay)

 Loire Atlantique 44
Maillé-Brézé (Nantes) Army ships.
Regional natural parcs : parc of  Brière
Museum of Pays de Retz  
Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique (St-Nazaire)
Parks and gardens of Nantes
Le Jardin des Hespérides (La Chapelle-sur-Erdre) Journey to the land of fruits

Loiret 45
La Source (Orléans) regional flower garden
La source (Orléans) official site



Monuments in Touraine

Cité royale de Loches, Forteresse royale de Chinon, Musée Rabelais (maison de la Devinière), Musée Balzac (château de Saché), Demeure de Ronsard (Prieuré de St Cosmes), Musée de la préhistoire du Grand Pressigny, Château de Candé, Parc de Richelieu et Musée de l'hôtel Gouïn.


 Maine-et-Loire 49
The Valley of the Loir
Regional natural parcs : parc Loire-Anjou-Touraine
Dolmen (Bagneux)
National stud farm "Le Lion d'Angers" 
Musée Joachim du Bellay (Liré)
Doué-la-Fontaine Zoo (Doué-la-Fontaine)
La ferme d'antan (Doué-la-Fontaine) farm and garden with 3000 rose tree.
La sablière (Doué-la-Fontaine) Site troglodytique site, "eau de rose" distillery..


 Sarthe 72
The Valley of the Loir


 Deux-Sèvres 79
Marais poitevin regional natural parc, small boat visit of the swamps.
La gâtine touristic area
La route du chabichou chabichou and goat cheese tour
La Ferme du Champ du Parc (Crézières) Farm

 Vienne 86
Futuroscope Parc (Jaunay-Clan, Poitiers) European Parc of Image
La Vallée des Singes (Romagne) Monkeys zoo


Bridges of the Loire Pictures gallery

The Région Centre museums

Les plus beaux détours de France France hosts many charming little towns of character, either famous or still anonymous, shut away from highways and major links and well worth a detour.
10 towns in Loire Valley: Sancerre (18), Mehun-sur-Yèvre (18), St-Amand-Montrond (18), La Châtre (36), Valençay (36), Loches (37), Beaugency (45), Montreuil-Bellay (49), La Flèche (72) et Chauvigny (86)




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