The "Cities and Countries of Art and History"
The Centre-Val de Loire region has 7 cities (Bourges - Chinon - Loches - Tours - Blois - Vendôme - Orléans) and 3 countries of art and history (Pays Loire Val d'Aubois, Pays Loire Touraine, Pays de la vallée du Cher et du Romorantinais)
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Since 1985, the Ministry of Culture, in partnership with local and regional authorities, has been responsible for implementing a policy of heritage development and awareness of architecture, in the form of the award of the label “City or Country of art and history”.
The label “Ville ou Pays d'art et d'histoire”, deposited at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), qualifies territories, municipalities or groupings of municipalities that, Conscious of the stakes involved in the appropriation of their architecture and heritage by the inhabitants, they are committed to an active approach of knowledge, conservation, mediation and support and to the architectural quality and living environment. The term heritage must be understood in its broadest sense, since it concerns both the entire built heritage of the city, as well as the natural, industrial, maritime heritage and the memory of the inhabitants. It is therefore a matter of integrating into the process all the elements that contribute to the identity of a city or a country rich in its past and strong in its dynamism.
This voluntary approach is reflected in the signing of a “City of Art and History” or “Country of Art and History” convention, developed in close cooperation between the Ministry of Culture (Regional Directorates-General for Cultural Affairs and Heritage) and local and regional authorities. It sets out specific objectives and includes a financial component.
Les Cities and Countries of Art and History form a national network which allows the exchange of the most innovative experiences.
The brochure "Laissez-vous conter La Renaissance" is published by the DRAC on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the label Villes et pays d'art et d'histoire, created in 1985!
This anniversary is an opportunity for the VPAH network of the Centre-Val de Loire region to be part of the actions led by the Val de Loire Mission and all the cultural and tourist actors, around the commemoration of the coming to the throne of François I in 1515.
The brochure "Rendez-vous conter le Centre de villes en pays" (in interactive reading), published by the DRAC and produced with the assistance of the animators of architecture and heritage, proposes to highlight in a few pages, the richness and diversity of heritage of this network, knowing that the notion of heritage covers both the entire built heritage of the city as well as the natural, industrial, river heritage, as well as the memory of the inhabitants.
Heritage Facilitator Contact Information (Maj 07/2021)
LOIRE VALLEY AUBOIS
Marie Berbain
CIAP La Tuilerie 27 rue du lieutenant Petit 18150 La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois
Tel. 02.48.74.23.93 contact@paysloirevaldaubois.fr
BOURGES
Cecile Contassot
12 place Etienne-Dolet 18000 Bourges
Tel. 02.48.57.81.46 cecile.contassot@ville-bourges.fr
CHINON
Claire Portier
Chinon City Hall Cultural Service 45 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 37500 Chinon
Tel. 02 47 93 11 38 patrimoine@ville-chinon.com
LOCHES
Véronique Lourme
City Hall P.O. Box 231 37602 Loches cedex
Tel. 02 47 59 48 21 vlourme@mairieloches.com
LOIRE TOURAINE COUNTRY
Laurianne Keil
Mairie 37530 Pocé-sur-Cisse
Tel. 02-47-57-30-83 patrimoine@paysloiretouraine.fr
TOWERS
Frédéric Dufrêche
City Hall - Culture Department 1 to 3, rue des Minimes P.O. Box 3215 37032 Tours cedex
tel. direct: 02 47 21 69 32 f.dufreche@ville-tours.fr
BLOIS
Lucile Yon
Blois Castle 41000 Blois
Tel. 02.54.90.33.02 Fax. 02.54.74.23.69 Lucile.YON@blois.fr
VENDÔME
Valérie Coiffard
Ville et Communauté du Pays de Vendôme BP 20107 41106 Vendôme cedex
Tel. 02.54.89.43.53 Fax. 02.54.89.41.01 valerie.coiffard@catv41.fr
LAND OF THE VALLEY OF THE RIVER CHER ET DU ROMORANTINAIS
Valérie Chapeau
1 Quai Soubeyran 41130 Selles-sur-Cher
Tel: 02.54.97.78.60 Fax: 02.54.97.78.70 pah.vcr@gmail.com
ORLEANS
N.
Césarine Remaud (Assistant)
City Hall Direction de la Culture et de la Création artistique/ Service City of Art and History
Place de l'Étape 45000 Orléans
Tel. 02 38 68 31 22 cesarine.remaud@orleans-metropole.fr
VPAH
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