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5 Château d’Angers
"' - # 10am–5:30pm
Angers daily ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May, 1 & 11
Nov, 25 Dec ∑ chateau-
! C3 ⌂ Maine-et-Loire ~ £
@ n 7 pl Kennedy; www. angers.fr
angersloiretourisme.com Galerie David d’Angers Black-and-white
Angers is the historic capital " ⌂ 33 rue Toussaint patterned Château
of Anjou and gateway to the # 10am–6pm Tue–Sun d'Angers (above), home
Loire Valley. The town is home ¢ Most public hols to a medieval
to the formidable 13th- ∑ musees.angers.fr Apocalypse tapestry
century Château d’Angers
with the longest (103 m/338 Musée Jean Lurçat/Le
ft) medi eval tapestry in the Musée de la Tapisserie the Vendée, and the region
world. It illustrates the story of Contemporaine remains coloured by conser-
the Apocalypse, with battles " ⌂ 4 blvd Arago # 10am– vatism and religious fervour.
between hydras and angels. 6pm Tue–Sun ¢ Most public This local history is retraced
Nearby Galerie David hols ∑ musees.angers.fr just south of Cholet at France’s
d’Angers, housed in the glass- popular theme park, Le Puy du
covered ruins of a 13th-century Fou, which stays open late for
church, celebrates the sculptor 6 its summer evening show,
born in Angers. Across the Cinéscénie. An account is given
River Maine, the 12th-century The Vendée at the Musée du Textile in
Hôpital St-Jean, a hospital for ! B4 ⌂ Vendée and Maine- Cholet, the town whose flax
the poor from 1174 to 1854, et-Loire k Nantes £ @ La and hemp textiles pro vided
houses the Musée Jean Lurçat. Roche-sur-Yon n 7 place du royalists with their kerchiefs:
Its prize exhibit is the exqui- Marché; www.vendee- originally white, then blood red.
site Chant du Monde tapes try, tourisme.com The tranquil Vendée offers
which was created by Lurçat in green tourism inland, in the
1957. In the same building is The counter-revolutionary bocage vendéen, a wooded
Le Musée de la Tapisserie move ment that swept western idyll with paths and nature
Contempor aine, with displays France between 1793 and 1799 trails. The stretch of the Atlantic
of ceramics and paintings. began as a series of uprisings in coastline between the Loire
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