AMBOISE, Loire Valley, France, April 28 (Reuters) - C ommemorations for Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary begin this week in Amboise, in the Loire Valley, with France and Italy setting aside ...

As the Loire River glides gently east to west, officially separating northern from southern France, it has come to define one of France's most popular tourist regions. Because of its history, this ...

You’re probably wondering why so many posts outside of Paris. Parisians tend to flee from the city of light in the summer, so as a Parisian transplant, I will posting a bit on my travels within France ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Five hundred years ago this fall, Leonardo da Vinci arrived in Amboise, a small town on France’s Loire River, bringing with him his three most famous ...

CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE, France - There are hundreds of miles of bike trails through the chateaux towns of the Loire Valley - and that's what tripped us up. We'd been trying to cycle the 17 miles from ...

Coming through in a crisisAfter Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica last month, I felt compelled to share my agency's experience assisting a group of... An abundance of travel books to gift this ...

France’s Loire Valley is a 300-square-mile region known as the “country of castles and wines.” Sometimes called, “The Valley of Kings,” the region has attracted the likes of Leonard da Vinci, the ...

Long before the Dan Brown book "The Da Vinci Code" reintroduced the Renaissance visionary to a new generation of readers and moviegoers, inhabitants of France's Loire Valley knew Leonardo da Vinci as ...