TORONTO — Next year marks a quarter-century since France’s Loire Valley was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the ...

including Tours, Angers, Orléans, Saumur, Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, as well as breathtaking gardens such as those at the Château de Villandry. Celebrated by Rabelais and venerated by Gargantua, the ...

Beyond the castles, the Loire Valley offers plenty of activities for visitors and allows for different kinds of exploration.

It wasn't the brochures or social media posts featuring rolling green hills and vineyards that led me to The Loire Valley, ...