HERITAGE RECORD · 933

The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes

卢瓦尔河畔叙利与沙洛纳间的卢瓦尔河谷

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

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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Wikidata reference

QIDQ2789507 ↗

Area86021 ha

Administrative areaQ16994 · Q13947

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iv)An outstanding example of a building, ensemble or landscape illustrating a significant stage in human history.

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