Loire Valley

Famous for its great wines and its beautiful age old castles, the Loire Valley distills a lazy feeling along its banks.

Domaine Sauvète

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Travel images of Domaine SauvèteDomaine Sauvète produces delicious organic wine in Monthou sur Cher. 10 hectares of the wineyard are harvested by hand. The vintner and his familly live in a small house looking over the hills.

Château d'Ussé

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Travel imagesThis is a real castle, built in the XVth century, like the one you see in movies, except, that it's real. So real that it inspired Charles Perault when he wrote his novel "the sleeping beauty".

Bridge of Langeais

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Travel images of Langeais
This bridge was built in 1849. With its towers and medieval architecture, it tries as much as possible to look like the château de Langeais. Through times, It has been bombed and mined but it is still standing there, proud and happy, with its wet feet.

Château de Langeais

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Travel images of Langeais Castle Château de Langeais was built in the second half of the 15th century by Louis XI. One half of it was a fortress, built to stand any war, which it did with success. The other half was more for lounging and realaxing with big fire places and giant LCD screens.

I'm not too sure about the screens and the lounging.

House in Tours

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Travel images of ToursOn the river bank of the Loire, a house built with the tender and white traditional stones, tuffeau.

Chinon

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Travel images in Chinon
Chinon lays along the river Vienne. Its old Castle used to be the place to be, People like the giant Garagantua, Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, and some kings, English or French went there at one time or an other. From the main dungeon, one sees the black slated roofs of the village below, like hundred of ravens.

Richelieu

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Travel images : Richelieu Indre et Loire
Richelieu, the Red Eminence, was a bishop, a cardinal and a minister. He was also a someone with a lot of ideas, some good, some terrible. This is what you get when you have so much power in your hands. He was sure he knew what the ideal city should be. It is called Richelieu and lays behind these gates. If you want to make your own opinion you'll have to travel to the Loire Valley.

Azay le rideau

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Azay le rideau
People call it a castle - Le château d'Azay le Rideau - I call it a jewel - Un bijou.

Over foggy waters

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bridge on river loire in toursI didn't dare checking where this bridge was going to. It was in Tours. It was the Loire Valley. That much I knew. But what was on the other side of the river was another story. Marin County ? No, because, it would mean this was the Golden Gate Bridge. Although with the fog...

Water Mill on the Cher

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Water MillDrop your bike in the grass, sit on the grass, open a bottle of Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil, spread rillettes on a baguette, ad some little pickle. Eat. Enjoy.

The water mill is still used to make flour.