Tourism
Le Maine-et-Loire (49) : A TOURIST REGION IN THE MULTIPLE ATTRACTIONS
Hotel de Loire presents you the multiple activities offering itself to you, near its site. Small and big will spend an unforgettable stay in our magnificent region abounding in varied tourist activities.
Hotel de Loire suggests you discovering the tourist activities, near its site. For more information, contact the tourism office of Angers.

Route de Cantenay-Epinard 15 km from Hotel de Loire First park of interactive meetings with the universe of the vegetable, TERRA BOTANICA opened its doors in the heart of Anjou to spring, 2010..
Web Site www.terrabotanica.fr
10 minutes from Hotel de Loire Jean Lurçat Musuem of contemporary tapestry The Holy Jean hospital, the remarkable architectural ensemble of the XIIth century, shelters since 1967, the tapestries " The Singing of the World " of Jean Lurçat ( 1957-1966 ) in the ancient room of the patients. Manifesto of a committed artist, a contemporary echo in the hanging of the Apocalypse, this all ten tapestries establishes an epic, poetic, symbolic and humanist vision of the XXth century.
Web Site www.musees.angers.fr
15 minutes from Hotel de Loire Galerie David d'Angers Since 1984, the abbey church All Saints' Day (XIIIth century) restored,welcomes the works of the sculptor David of Angers (1788-1856). Because of the multiple and regular donations of the artist in its home town, the collection of the museum is impressive : monumental works, command (Front wall of the Pantheon), head-and-shoulders portraits, medallions. The genesis of the work is perceptible thanks to sketches drawn, modelled in earth and moldings in plaster.
Web Site www.musees.angers.fr
2 Promenade du "Bout du Monde" 10 minutes from Hotel de Loire In the heart of Angers, city of art and history, penetrate into the vast fortress. Be allowed surprise by the elegant buildings and the gardens of the castle of court of the dukes of Anjou and admire the biggest known medieval tapestry : the hanging of the Apocalypse.
Web Site www.angers.monuments-nationaux.fr
10 minutes from Hotel de Loire Z.I St Barthélemy d'Anjou Four generations of men and women succeeded one another to make of Cointreau a liqueur recognized and estimated all over the world. All in all 4000 documents, a treasure of objects, movies and advertising images invite you in a fascinating journey in the time through the inheritance of the brand.
Web Site www.cointreau.fr
10 minutes from Hotel de Loire Route de Beaufort en vallée Relive in the heart of 15 spaces of the castle-museum the great adventure of the communication. These spaces have the name of the big inventors, the symbolic characters who marked the history of the communication. Be allowed guide by these heroes through a route its audio guide with embarked sound and images (about ten plasma screens spread archives images, extracted from movies of time and reports).
Web Site www.musee-communication.com
5 minutes from Hotel de Loire 49800 TRÉLAZÉ Be allowed tell... Shielded from an amphitheater, the fendeur reproduces in front of you the gestures of formerly which allow him to obtain, from a block of schist of several tons, fine slates of cover. The visit continues in the ancient factory of matches. The geology, the ancient and current techniques of exploitation, as well as the various uses of the slate schist are presented. Tools, machines, models allow to follow the evolution of the history (story) slate quarry. A permanent exhibition redraws the work of the women in slate quarries. On a site classified in the remarkable heritage of Anjou, the walkers discover mounds and old fund, typical landscapes of the slate site. In an environment convenient to the observation of birds, a marked out route allows you to learn about the ornithology. Close to the museum of the Slate, the company "The Tower of the Mill" presents you a game typically from Anjou : "the Ball of Fort". A not completely round ball which takes place in a not completely flat game and which is practised in slippers.
Web Site www.lemuseedelardoise.fr
10 minutes from Hotel de Loire 49320 BRISSAC QUINCÉ Higher castle of France, Brissac, with seven floors and 204 rooms, deserves its nickname of "Giant of the Val de Loire". Non communicated prices.
Web Site www.chateau-brissac.fr
30 minutes from Hotel de Loire La Gatelière Iin-depth tour (about 1h30) : Animations surface (about 2h) :
Web Site www.laminebleue.com
35 minutes from Hotel de Loire Les celliers de la Coudraye The museum is situated in the heart of the vineyard of Anjou and Saumur, to Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay. Installed over 1200 m² in a ancient storeroom, it presents the evolution of the vine growing for the XIXth century. Objects, tools and documents allow to understand better the works of the vineyardand testify of the relation of the man with the wine.
Web Site www.mvvanjou.com
About 40 minutes from Hotel de Loire Route de Cholet Dug in the soft stone of Anjou, the Biopark Zoo of Endowed the Fountain offers to animals and to visitors an exceptional frame, marrying luxuriant vegetation and spectacular decorations.
Web Site www.zoodoue.fr
About 50 minutes from Hotel de Loire 72200 La Flèche The zoo of La Fleche opened its doors in 1946, what by way of him the oldest park deprived of France. it is a part of five bigger French zooes
Web Site www.zoo-la-fleche.com
BP 207 Terrefort About 45 minutes from Hotel de Loire The Cadre Noir of Saumur groups together the teaching staff of the national School of equitation today. Formerly and since 1815, the riders of the black frame represented the instructors of equitation of the School of cavalry. Today among forty three, they assume the functions of the civil frames of the equitation, the competitions and the research, the documentation and the preservation of the tradition. It is through their famous presentations that they show their know-how in the domains which concern the sports and classic equitation. From February 15th, 2010 till November 6th, 2010. Closed on Saturday afternoon, on Sunday, Monday morning and holidays. 1h00
Web Site www.cadrenoir.fr
About 1 hour from Hotel de Loire 49730 MONTSOREAU The castle of Montsoreau is an exceptional site, in the confluence of the Loire and Vienna, in the crossroads of three regions: Anjou, Touraine and Poitou. It is the unique castle of the Loire built in border of the river. Montsoreau and Candes Saint Martin is a member of the most beautiful villages of France, built in white stones of tuffeau, in side of hillsides. Restored recently, the castle proposes you several animations : Adult : 8.50 € Duration : 1h00 à 1h30. Stop of the box office 45 minutes before the closure.
Web Site www.chateau-montsoreau.com
About 1 hour from Hotel de Loire The Big Park of Puy du Fou to discover the history of France by having fun as madmen. Come to the meeting of the most illustrious periods of our history. Of Gallo-Roman period in the wars of Vendée by way of the invasion of the Vikings and the Middle Ages cross the centuries. Between the waterfalls of shows and animations, the peace of a paysagé of 40 hectares and the reconstituted and livened up villages, the history comes to you overflowing with feelings and with sensations. La Cinéscénie : unique to the world ! On stage of 15 hectares, the water, the fire, the light, the state-of-the-art sound, the technology and the actors seal the most extraordinary ever seen show. 2700 volunteers make you live the legend of Maupilliers, the tremendous fate of this farmers' family Natives of Vandee region which crosses the periods, of the Middle Ages at the end of the Second World War. About 2 hours of feelings and 700 years of history for a huge fresco which has already seduced 6 million spectators. 10:00 am to 09:00 pm
Web Site www.puydufou.com
About 1 hour and a half from Hotel de Loire La Petite Baltière Passengers of the wind, embark for a majestic world and discover between greenery and bell towers the intimacy of the most beautiful castles and the manor houses, the rivers and the forests which make the charms of the Val de Loire. Progress of a flight: you are welcomed and driven by our care on the ground of takeoff. You participate in the inflating of balloons then embark for one hour of flight and feelings according to winds. After a landing in the middle of nowhere we put back to you your certificate of ascent around the traditional toast of the aeronauts. In the outcome, we take back you in the point of appointment. Billet 7 jours/7 : Ticket for a week : Private nacelle :
Web Site www.touraine-montgolfiere.fr
Avenue du Téléport About 2 hours from Hotel de Loire The park of the Futuroscope is a theme park the attractions of which are based on the multimedia, the film, audiovisual and robotics techniques of future. It is situated in the department of Vienna, in 10 kilometers in the North of Poitiers, on the municipalities of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou and Jaunay-Clan. It is surrounded with a science park implanted on the municipality of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou. big screens under your feet, above your heads, everything around you, cinemas dynamics, dynamic movies in 3D, the broadcasting deceives you and transports you in a magic world or fiction and reality make only one. A unique park to be missed on no account. From 10:00 am to 09:00 pm
Web Site www.futuroscope.com
Terra Botanica
B.P. 80 609
49106 ANGERS cedex 2
With 110 000 m2 of the gardens, the aquatic spaces and the greenhouses, marked out by 40 attractions and animations, this park will offer a multidimensional discovery of the flora of all the continents. A uniqueexperience to the world.
For the first time indeed, this innovative concept will allow, in a single place, to discover the vegetable under all its facets (historic, geographical, economic, symbolic, scientific, aesthetic) and anyway
Journey through time(weather), the space and the senses(directions), TERRA BOTANICA will involve all the time the show of the nature with the understanding of the alive.
With blooms assured all year round, he will propose a face naturally renewed in every season.
Desired, generous, mysterious or tamed through 4 big universes, TERRA BOTANICA invites you in a day of discovery in one.Rates
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Musée Jean Lurçat
4, boulevard Arago Angers
The building of the ancient orphanage (XVIIth century), is transformed into Jean Lurçat's museographic spaces which come to complete the presentation of this major artist of the revival of the French tapestry. Recent donations allow to present important artists of the textile art as Thomas Gleb ( 1912-1991 ) or Glau-Garriga ( 1929 ).
Temporary exhibitions enter echo, all year long, with the permanent collections.Rates
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Musée David d'Angers
33, bis rue Toussaint
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Le Château d'Angers
49100 ANGERSRates
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Le Carré Cointreau
Bd des Bretonnières
49 124 Angers
Visit the production site of the famous liqueur and dive into the secret of its elaboration. Follow the subtle flavor loosened by the soft and bitter orange peels during the distillation and be allowed surprise by the surprising room of stills in the red copper. Finally discover the manufacturing unit at the rate of flasks on the channels of traffic jam.
In an intimate and friendly atmosphere, share the tips and tricks of our barman by participating in a workshop cocktail. Of the preparation for the tasting, you will master the golden rules to make a success at home of all the cocktails, of the simplest in the most elaborated.Rates
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Le Château Musée de la communication
49124 SAINT BARTHELEMY D'ANJOURates
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Le musée de l'Ardoise
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Le Château de Brissac
* Acquired in 1502 by René de Cossé, first Lord of Brissac, it is the residence of the 13th duke of Brissac today. Whereas the park offers magnificent points of view in the shade of the hundred-years-old trees, the visit reveals one dazzling decoration. Here compete in beauty, ceilings gilded in the sheet, the precious furniture and especially the charming theater Belle Epoque, dedicated to the opera (200 places).Rates
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La Mine bleue
49520 NOYANT LA GRAVOYÈRE
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Le musée de la vigne et du vin d'Anjou
Place des Vignerons
49750 SAINT LAMBERT DU LATTAY
You will find here answers to your questions on the techniques of the vine growing, the vinification methods, the characteristics of the plant...Rates
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Zoo de Doué
49700 DOUÉ LA FONTAINE
On 14 hectares, more 600 animal, high here for the saving of their species, call you on the disappearance of the wild world and on the solutions implemented, successfully, on the ground, by the team of the zoo. Not to miss : the career of giraffes, big valley of the rhinoceros blacks, the pit in vultures, islands of the primates, pond of the huge otters of Amazonia and, in 2009, the opening of the biggest open-air aviary of Europe.Rates
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Zoo de La Flèche
Discover more than 1200 animals, 120 species of 5 continents, to the heart of a luxuriant vegetation in one of five bigger French renowned zoo for its fabulous shows of sea lions, birds of prey and parrots. Luxurious presentations punctuate the visits in a natural frame : small, submarine polar bear in vision pandas of China, African plain for the elephants, the Arctic wolves in pack, unique in Europe. The zoo proposes innovative concepts such as the Argentine pampa, the Australian bush, the taiga of the white tigers or still mini close Malagasy.Rates
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Le Cadre Noir
49411 SAUMUR
Penetrate behind the scenes of a unique school in France of which the professors are others than the famous riders of the Cadre Noir : discovery of the history of the Cadre noir and the national school of equitation, its functioning and its infrastructures (stables, big merry-go-round (riding school), saddlery (tack room)).Rates
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Le Château de Montsoreau
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Child from 5 to 14 years old : 5.40 €
14 - 18 years and studying : 6.90 €
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Le Grand parc du Puy du fou
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Touraine Montgolfière
37210 ROCHECORBONRates
Le Futuroscope
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