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The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
France
Date of Inscription: 2000
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv) Property : 85394.0000 ha Buffer zone: 208934.0000 ha N47 23 56.004 E0 42 10.008 Ref: 933 |
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Brief Description
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.
Chambord
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Justification for Inscription
Criterion (i): The Loire Valley is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Blois, Chinon, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular in its world-famous castles, such as the Château de Chambord. Criterion (ii): The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape along a major river which bears witness to an interchange of human values and to a harmonious development of interactions between human beings and their environment over two millennia. Criterion (iv): The landscape of the Loire Valley, and more particularly its many cultural monuments, illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the Renaissance and the Age of the Enlightenment on western European thought and design.
Notes
- The "Chateau and Estate of Chambord", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes".
Media
NHK World Heritage 100 SeriesActivities
News
- Dec 22, 2005 Ten years of decentralised cooperation between the cities of Chinon and Luang Prabang sponsored by UNESCO
- Nov 30, 2000 World Heritage Committee Inscribes 61 New Sites on World Heritage List
Events
- Nov 28, 2007 - Nov 30, 2007 Val de Loire – World Heritage Interpretation, Training for guides
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