Orléans
Orléans is a city in north-central France, about 130 kilometres southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret department and of the Centre region. Orléans is located on the Loire River where the river curves south towards the Massif Central.
Orléans is located in the northern bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Orléans belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The capital of Orléanais, 120 kilomètres south-south-west of Paris, it is bordered to the north by the Beauce region and the forêt d'Orléans, and the Orléans-la-Source neighbourhood and the Sologne region to the south.
Main sights
- Ste-Croix Cathedral (La Cathédrale Sainte-Croix)
- The House of Joan of Arc (La Maison de Jeanne d'Arc) [4]. Most of Orleans in devoted to Jean d'Arc as she liberated the town in medival times. Its hard to walk through the town without seeing Jean d'arc related stuff quite frequently. The house is definately worth seeing.
- Martroi plaza and Joan of Arc statue
- Parc Floral (10 km south of down town)
- Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais
- Musée des Beaux Arts
- "Europe Bridge"
- Hotel de Ville (City Hall). Where everyone in the city is required to get married, the hotel de ville has breathtaking rooms filled with royal curtains and gold drippings
- Charles Peguy Centre
- Natural Sciences Museum
Parks
- Parc Floral de la Source
- Motte Sanguin garden
- Charpenterie garden
- Plants garden
- Anjorrant parc
- Charbonnière parc
- Moins Roux parc
- Pasteur parc