Travel Guide Chouzé-Sur-Loire

Chouzé-sur-Loire, a town in the Loire Valley, is a Unesco World Heritage Site, in the heart of the Loire Anjou Touraine Regional Nature Park. It benefits from a picturesque environment of great charm and a strategic location on the banks of the Loire, between Anjou and Touraine. It is an attractive village with a little more than 2,000 inhabitants and many gîtes and guest houses. This village has lived in symbiosis with its river for centuries, stretching from Port-Boulet to the Montravers island, bordering the island of Than, facing the confluence, where the green waters of the Vienne meet the silver gray of the royal river for a long journey to the ocean! The prestigious past of this city is due to the importance of river navigation. To learn more about this theme, head for the Mariners' Museum, open in summer, which traces the history of inland waterway transport in the region. The testimony of this history is still transmitted today thanks to the diversity, the authenticity and the richness of the objects housed in this place. A heritage tour starts from the museum and goes through the streets of Chouzé-sur-Loire with evocative names, from the quai des Sarrazins to the rue des Moulins, passing by the rue de la Corderie which evokes the time when hemp was grown to make ropes and the time of the mills where wheat was transformed into flour. As for the rue Chèvre, one can imagine that the peasants here had a few goats..