Montsoreau : "Village de charme"

The village of Monsoreau has received 2 award labels: “Village de charme” (Charming Village) and “Plus beau village de France" (Most beautiful village in France). Its flea market is renowned and receives nearly 5,000 visitors every 2nd Sunday of the month.
Its troglodyte village has windows, doors and staircases that cut into the cliff and reveal a surprising underground world in which farmers, fishermen and wine growers, that were either nobles or clerics, coexisted over the years.
It is estimated that at the end of the 18th century a large part of the population lived in these "caves"!
At the beginning of the 20th century, the mushroom growers moved into the immense galleries dug in the 15th century.

The Loire, world heritage site

On 30 November 2000, the Loire Valley from Sully sur Loire to Chalonnes sur Loire (Maine et Loire) - 260 km of the longest river in France - was designated a UNESCO world heritage site. The Château de Montsoreau is located on this section of the last "wild" river in Europe.

Internet site of the Village of Montsoreau:
http://www.ville-montsoreau.fr/