New series called “Gens du Val de Loire”!

In the first videos you'll be able to hear from Julien Guillemart, who heads up the Loir-et-Cher Maison de la Loire, and Vincent Aldebert, a boatman and member of the association “Les Marins du Port de Chambord”. Other professionals will then be speaking out in the next videos, which will be airing all year. This series is giving each of them a chance to share with us their relationship with the Loire, how they use this river on an almost daily basis and what the Loire Valley's inclusion in the Unesco World Heritage list as a cultural landscape means for them. 

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How the Loire is used

After the videos entitled “Questions jardins” (Garden Questions) shown during the 2017 cultural season “Gardens in the Loire Valley”, this new series will be delving into the different ways the Loire is used. This is a headline theme for Mission Val de Loire throughout 2018 and 2019, since the Loire's growing appeal — for residents and tourists alike — is leading to more people flocking to it and more uses being made of it. Today, it is therefore necessary to consider how protection can go hand-in-hand with quality development at the scale of the entire river. 

This two-year theme will bring stakeholders and users of the Loire together through fishing, tourism and spatial planning, and enable efforts to be devoted to striking a balance between traditional and emerging uses on the one hand, and protection of the landscapes and biodiversity on the other. 

These short video clips have been produced as part of this thematic programme: a way for the views and testimonies of just some of the Loire Valley stakeholders to reach their wider community … and beyond!