Culture of the Countries of the Loire

History

detailed Article: History of the Countries of the Loire

The area of the Pays of the Loire was created in 1955, at the same time as the other administrative areas, during the introduction of the “areas of program”, administrative cutting whose scope were extended little by little to give the French areas current.

To the difference in other areas, the Countries of the Loire did not correspond, with their creation, any administrative entity or history which would have preexisted: the five departments were gathered on administrative and economic criteria. This cutting always gives place to a strong dispute with partisans of a fastening of the Loire-Atlantique in Brittany and adversaries of such a project. The argument of the first is that this department made historically but also culturally part of Brittany.

See also: administrative Detachment of the Loire-Atlantique

Historically, the Countries of the Loire recover pieces of the old provinces of Anjou (Maine-et-Loire, third south of the Mayenne, south-western fringe of the Sarthe), of Brittany (the Loire Atlantique), Maine (the Sarthe and major part of Mayenne), Perche (north-eastern of the Sarthe) and Poitou (the Vendée). Thus so of the historical areas such as Anjou or Maine find themselves almost completely in the Pays area of the Loire, the departments of the Loire Atlantique and the Vendée find themselves detached their historical areas they same made up in administrative area (Brittany and Poitou-Charentes).

Inheritance

detailed Article: Inheritance of the Countries of the Loire

Rich person of a plural identity, the Country of the Loire account among the areas having an inheritance more diversified.

The valorization of the inheritance of the Country of the Loire that it is built, cultural, Audiovisuel and the organization of the cycles of artistic teaching to professional vocation within the academies and of the schools of Musique watch attachment of the ligériens to their inheritance and their culture.

The area has many Musée S presenting of the historical collections and contemporary varied.

The most known site of the river which gives them its name, the Loire ch4ateau, located for the majority in area Center, but also in the Anjou), are buildings for the majority built or strongly altered with the French rebirth , at one moment when the royal capacity was located on banks of the river, of its affluents where near those (15th and 16th centuries). The majority of the castles draw nevertheless their origins in the Moyen-âge of which it preserve important architectural features. The concentration in momuments remarkable in this area justified the classification of the Loire Valley in world heritage of humanity by the UNESCO, of which the part of the Countries of the Loire stopped with the Chalonnes-on-Loire in Maine-et-Loire.

Among the castles, one can in particular quote:

Festival

Live performance

The Countries of the Loire comprise many live performances of the Current musics to the national scenes while passing by the dance and the theater, of the structures of national size such as the National orchestra of the Countries of the Loire, the Abbaye of Fontevraud or the musical events like the Insane Day of Nantes.

The District council of the Countries of the Loire supports all shapes of live performance and their diffusion on the whole of the territory, of the actions is carried out as regards cultural public equipment and of the initiatives are taken for the development with the international one. The cinema is the object of production assistances or with turnings in the area.

List nonexhaustive festivals

Regional cultural actor

Pass Culture and Sport

On the initiative of the District council of the Countries of the Loire, a Not Culture and Sport was creates to facilitate the opening of the young people to the culture, their access to the sports and their associative engagement. The Pass Culture Sport is addressed to the high-school pupils, apprentices whatever their age, like all the other young people from 15 to 19 years. It ace for main objective to democratize the access to the culture for all, to make device a genuine tool of cultural opening develop the cultural and sporting practices, to support engagement citizen and social integration.

Having a cost of 8 euros (10 $US in August 2006), the check book is composed of 9 accounts - checks which gives right an admission free for spectacles or sports events or to a reduction on the purchase of books. Accounts - checks also make it possible to support the artistic or sporting practice, in the same way another check gives right a reduction for the young people who wish to follow formations of first aid or to pass certain diplomas, standard BAFA, arbitration or sporting framing. Two accounts - collective checks giving right admissions free within the framework of exits of class or groups are included in the mini-check book.

The ordering of the check book is done near the advisers not-culture-sport of the schools or other structures partners like the network of the Regional center of Information Youth, the local mission or the hearths of young workers).

See too

Internal bond

External bond

  • Site of the District council of the Countries of the Loire
  • Cultural Site of the Countries of the Loire

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