Loire - Loire

The Loire at Amboise Castle

The Loire is a 1,004 kilometer long river in France. It rises on Mont Gerbier-de-Jonc in the Massif Central and flows through in a wide arc Burgundy, Central France and the Pays de la Loireuntil they at Saint-Nazaire flows into the Atlantic.

Wikivoyage has the following entries for this:

  • Water hiking on the Loire, Themed articles
  • Castles of the Loire, along the Loire there are over 300 large and small castle complexes; a good 40 of them are considered to be particularly noteworthy and outstanding monuments of the French renaissance architecture, they belong to the UNESCO world cultural heritage
  • Loire (department), a department on the upper reaches of the Loire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region