Le front bati du village du Thoureil photographié depuis la rive opposée. Au dessus du village, le coteau est boisé.

UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Loire Valley

The Loire Valley’s inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List calls for coherent action on the part of all the public stakeholders involved to protect the Loire Valley’s landscapes. As guardian of the site’s integrity with regard to UNESCO, the French State has drawn up a management plan for the site’s boundaries in liaison with the local authorities concerned. This entails the drafting of an overall policy for protecting the most symbolic areas, which has led to the identification of 25 sites.

List of sites

Name of siteDate of inscription
The Corniche Angevine11 February 2003
La Roche de Mûrs and its surroundings25 April 2007
Le Thoureil-Saint-Maur3 June 2008
The Maine-Loire confluence and Angevin hillsides23 February 2010
The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and its surroundings22 August 2013
Les Madères - Olivier Debré29 September 2017
The château, hillside, “Varennes” farmland, aqueduct and the Loire in Luynes4 June 2018
The landscapes of the Loire and Saint-Benoît Abbey2 August 2018
The confluence of the Loire and the Vienne17 September 2021
The Château views at Chaumont-sur-Loire and Veuzain-sur-Loire21 May 2023
The bridge crossing the Loire at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire13 February 2024
Rabelais country and the Picrocholine warPlanned
The surroundings of the Château de Rigny-UsséPlanned
The Loire at BréhémontPlanned
La Chatonnière valley and Marnay rocky outcropPlanned
The Loire at La-Chapelle-aux-NauxPlanned
The Loire at AmboisePlanned
The Loire at BloisPlanned
Ménars - Valley upstream of BloisPlanned
The Loire at BeaugencyPlanned

Carte

Rue du professeur Debré
37210 Vernou-sur-Brenne
France

Port Bihaut
37230 Luynes
France

Place de l'abbaye
45730 Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire
France

Le bourg
37500 Candes-Saint-Martin
France

Rue chaude
45110 Châteauneuf-sur-Loire
France

Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire
41150 Chaumont-sur-Loire
France

Route de la Corniche angevine
49290 Chalonnes-sur-Loire
France

Port Thibault
49130 Saint-Gemmes-sur-Loire
France

Abbaye royale de Fontevraud
49590 Fontevraud-l'Abbaye
France

La Roche de Mûrs
49610 Mûrs-Érigné
France

Quai des mariniers
49350 Gennes-Val-de-Loire
France

Illustration principale : Le village du Thoureil, en Maine-et-Loire. CC BY-NC-SA Francis Vautier / Mission Val de Loire