The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes

Cultural
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Country France
Year inscribed2000
Criteria(i) (ii) (iv)

Overview

The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands formed by many centuries of interaction between their population and the physical environment, primarily the river Loire itself.

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Source: UNESCO World Heritage List — CC BY-SA 4.0