To celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Loire Valley’s inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Drac Centre cycle of conferences in 2010 is devoted to the Loire Valley heritage.
- 28
th January - the Loire Valley's inclusion in the
UNESCO World Heritage list
- 25
th February - for an archaeology of the Loire river
region: review and research possibilities in the Centre
region
- 11
th March - the meeting of a river with its canals: the
canal aqueducts in the Loire Valley between Briare and
Digouin
- 22
nd April - Marmoutier (Tours, Indre-et-Loire): origin,
spatial organisation and environment of a large monastery by the
Loire (4
th-19
th centuries)
- 20
th May - the Loire landscape, source of inspiration
for 19
th century painters
- 17
th June - Crossing the river: the Loire bridges, the
beginnings through to the 19
th century
- 23
rd September - UNESCO protection and river heritage,
example of the Orléans port
- 21
st October - The Loire riverscape in pictures:
encountering the collections of the Châteauneuf-sur-Loire
Museum
- 18
th November - the Loire Valley and Reconstruction. The
cases of Tours and Blois
- 16
th December - Loire Valley, world heritage, what
future? Presentation of the management plan
These conferences will be given from 6pm to 7.30pm in the
lecture theatre of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle at 6 rue
marcel Proust in Orléans.