The major heritage sites, Loire Châteaux and other popular monuments in the Loire Valley have undertaken to work in a network, with the support of the Centre and Pays de la Loire regional councils, so as to promote their own sites more effectively and make the cultural treasures they harbour more accessible.
Tourism institutions
Regional tourist boards, county tourist boards and local tourist offices.
The rooting of the girouet, or weather vane, in the history of Loire residents has won it selection as a symbol of Loire towns' and villages' kinship with the Loire Valley World Heritage – all of which have a personalised weather vane. Reliant on the wind to sail up the Loire, boatmen of the past were proud of their weather vanes, attached at the top of the barge masts.