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Loire Valley ( ) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. It is also noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles, such as the Châteaux d'Amboise, Château de Chambord, château d'Ussé, Château de Villandry and Chenonceau and more particularly its many cultural monuments, which illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the Renaissance and the Age of the Enlightenment on western European thought and design.

On December 2, 2000, UNESCO added the central part of the Loire River valley, between Maine and Sully-sur-Loire, to its list of World Heritage Sites. In choosing this area that includes the French départements of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, and Maine-et-Loire, the committee said that the Loire Valley is:

"an exceptional cultural landscape, of great beauty, historic cities and villages, great architectural monuments - the Châteaux - and lands that have been cultivated and shaped by centuries of interaction between local populations and their physical environment, in particular the Loire itself."

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Châteaux of the Loire Valley

Amboise * Angers * Azay-le-Rideau * Blois * La Bourdaisière * Chambord * Chaumont * Chenonceau * Châteaudun * Cheverny * Langeais * Loches * Menars * Montreuil-Bellay * Montsoreau * Plessis-Bourré * Le Rivau * Saumur * Sully * Talcy * Troussay * Ussé * Valençay * Villandry

World Heritage Sites in France

Île-de-France|Île-de-France |
Parisian basinAmiens Cathedral * Belfries of Belgium and Franceup|2 * Bourges Cathedral * Cathedral of Chartres * Cathedral of Notre-Dame, former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims * Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay * Fortifications of Vaubanup|1 * Le Havre * Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnesup|1 * Mont Saint-Michel and its Bayup|1 * Routes of Santiago de Compostelaup|1 * Vézelay Church and Hill
Nord-Pas-de-CalaisBelfries of Belgium and Franceup|2 * Fortifications of Vaubanup|1
EastFortifications of Vaubanup|1 * Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains and Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans * Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance, Nancy * Strasbourg - Grande Île
WestAbbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe * Fortifications of Vaubanup|1 * Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnesup|1 * Mont Saint-Michel and its Bayup|1 * Routes of Santiago de Compostelaup|1
South WestBordeaux * Canal du Midiup|1 * Fortifications of Vaubanup|1 * Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley * Pyrénées - Mont Perduup|3 * Routes of Santiago de Compostelaup|1 * Saint-Émilion
Centre EastLyon * Routes of Santiago de Compostelaup|1
MediterraneanArles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments * Canal du Midiup|1 * Carcassonne * Fortifications of Vaubanup|1 * Gulf of Porto (Calanches de Piana * Gulf of Girolata * Scandola Reserve) * Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge, Avignon * Pont du Gard * Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and Triumphal Arch of Orange * Routes of Santiago de Compostelaup|1
Overseas departments
and territories
Lagoons of New Caledonia



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