by Valence on Wed 3 Dec 2008 23:56
With its huge King Rene fortress, the city of Angers is one of the towns most visited, closely followed by Saumur, which is the home of the Romanesque Notre-Dame-de-Nantilly, with its notable tapestries of the 15th to17th century and the Cadre Noir Academy for Horse Riding. The graves and statues of England's Henry II, his wife Eleanor and the son Richard I, often called the Lion Heart, are all located near here.