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Ports of the Loire
Published on 08 December 2016 - Updated 22 February 2017
The toponymy of the Loire Valley World Heritage site still demonstrates to this day how the river has been used, especially in terms of boarding boats. "Port Boulet", "Port Charbonnier", "Port Poisson", "Port Saint-Maur" and "Port Thibaut" demonstrate how the relationship to water and access to the river are omnipresent.
You may be surprised by the vast number of ports dotted along the course of the river. This a territory punctuated with distinctive landmarks. The amount of infrastructure illustrates how much the Loire was used: pervasive, intense and essential.
A reference scientific inventory
This exhibition is the outcome of a partnership bringing together Mission Val de Loire world heritage and the Heritage and Inventory Department of the Centre-Val de Loire Region. It is almost entirely the result of scientific work conducted by Valérie Mauret-Cribellier, a researcher in this department.
In 2005-2006, the Centre DREAL led an initial field survey of the slipways and quays of the Loire and its formerly navigated tributaries. Then, between 2008 and 2013, Valérie Mauret-Cribellier expanded upon this work using documents from the written and iconographic archives related to historical and documentary aspects. The sources taken advantage of include those kept in the National, Départemental and Municipal Archives' collections, in the Ecole nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées and in the regional departments of the DREAL.
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1 – Ports de Loire
2 - Un fleuve équipé
3 – De l’antiquité aux temps modernes (1/2 )
4 – De l’Antiquité aux temps modernes ( 2/2 )
5, 6 et 7 - Fonctions, usages et infrastructures
8 et 9 - Villes et villages...portuaires
10 - Le port de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, tout y est!
11 - Echelles hydrométriques
12 - Escaliers
13 - Les gares d'eau 1/2
14 - Les gares d'eau 2/2
15 - Les organeaux
16 - Le port, un espace social
17 – Du travail, des métiers, des hommes et des femmes
18 – Conserver et restaurer les ports de Loire
19 – Souvent s’adapter, parfois transformer
20 – Espaces restaurés, usages renouvelés
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