Location: Indre-et-Loire in France
Nearest Airport:
Tours at 45
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Nearest Train:
Tours at 45
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Nearest Motorway:
Ste Maure de Touraine at 10
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Car: necessary
The Loire Valley is rich in history and architecture; like the Loire river itself this vast region runs through the heart of French life. It's sophisticated cities, luxuriant landscape and magnificent food and wine add up to a bourgeois paradise. Renowned for its sumptuous Chateaux the area boasts relics of royal days gone by. Visit the renaissance gardens of Villandry and the fairy-tale turrets of Azay-le-Rideau. A must is a visit to Amboise, one of the favourite residences of the French Kings. Here you will find the Chateau d'Amboise, Louis XI lived here; Charles VIII was born and died here. The region is wealthy in history and architecture, natural beauty and tranquility, exquisite fine wines and good food.