When the Loire and the Vienne rivers meet

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Walk in Candes-Saint-Martin: when the Loire and the Vienne rivers meet. Jean-Christophe Coutand / ADT Touraine

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Collegiate church of Candes-Saint-Martin – Loire Valley, France. Jean-Christophe Coutand / ADT Touraine

Candes-Saint-Martin is listed among the most beautiful villages of France: it is a picture postcard village with its black slate roofs covering the white tufa stone buildings surrounding the beautiful collegiate church. Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, it’s a church of pilgrimage where saint Martin died on 8 November 397.

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