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The IEHCA (Institut européen d'histoire et des cultures de l'alimentation) is one of the most prominent research laboratories of the University of Tours. Here, researchers cultivate the art of eating well by conducting investigations into the history of food. What did people eat in the past, how and why? These are all questions that established researchers and students are asking themselves, and that visitors are invited to explore during events open to the general public: conferences, cooking classes, chefs' residencies, a gastronomic book fair... All good things to discover in the Villa Rabelais, the epicenter of the "Tours cité de la gastronomie" project.

This architectural square houses a swarm of musical culture in the heart of Pellouailles. Everything is concentrated here: classical music courses, amplified music workshops and artists'residences that come there for a few days to prepare and refine their concerts before going on tour. But there is also a show room, adjustable, which has already hosted known groups and singers, some-man-shows, etc. The acoustics are not the most successful, it must be admitted, but having a real hall in the middle of the northern Angers countryside is rather bad! Because culture is not confined to big cities…

For all those who want to learn to speak English or Spanish in a different way, Dora, the creator of Rock the Talk, offers a totally different approach to traditional academic teaching. Just as with music, you can learn solfeggio for months before touching an instrument, you can start a language with its grammar, but not here. With Dora, you're going to live the language, you're going to find yourself in situations of exchange, of play to learn it naturally as you did at your nursery school.