Lana Bortolot covers the intersection of wine, business and culture. France’s Loire Valley may be known for its fairy-tale-like architecture—French Gothic and Renaissance styled chateaus built ...

Not well known, even in France, it is now a museum devoted to Leonardo's startling inventions. In terms of the Loire Valley's glorious history—for some three centuries, this is where the kings ...

Much of the Loire Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and all along the trail you stick closely to France’s last great wild river, with its sandy banks and islands, vine-covered slopes, picturesque ...

This region of France does things on the grand scale. South of Brittany and Normandy and just a short drive or train journey from Paris, the Loire Valley straddles the frontier between northern and ...