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A business and trade centre, Angers is known for its wine and the famous Cointreau liqueur. It also has glassworks, printing plants, and factories making electronic and photographic equipment, textiles, food, paper products, and tiles. On its outskirts are the largest slate quarries in France.

Start your sightseeing tour with the Loire valley and visit the Solesmes or Fontevrard Abbeys, the Château d'Angers with its renowned tapestries of the apocalypse, the Lion d'Angers national horse breeding and the Cointreau distillery. A museum relates the history of the famous liqueur. Look around and see the distillation hall with its majestic stills, and enjoy the pleasure of the free tasting.

'Château à Motte' (The Mound Castle), a historic reconstruction of the wooden castle built on a mound of the Haie Joulain, nor the "Musée des Ailes Anciennes", the museum of Ancient Wings, which contains a large collection of planes and gliders from their origins to our present time.

Don’t miss the Loire wine route (Anjou, Champigny and Savennières)! The wines of Anjou and Saumur harmonise with the greatest dishes meant for gourmets but also with plain traditional cuisine. In the store-rooms and cellars arranged for wine-tasting, the wine-growers are expecting you to sample a whole range of up-market wines: for example the Bonnezeaux, Anjou Villages and Anjou Rouge, Cabernet d'Anjou and Anjou Blanc.

Several tourist sites are located in this region such as the Mont Saint Michel (two and a half hours drive), the Brittany coast, the Landing beaches, Chenonceaux (one and a half hours driving) etc.

The cathedral of St. Maurice, a majestic structure without side aisles, dates from the 12^th century and exhibits the characteristic type of Angevin or Plantagenet architecture. During the Middle Ages Angers was a flourishing monastic city with six great monasteries: St. Aubin founded by King Childebert I; St. Serge by Clovis II; St. Julien, St. Nicholas and Ronceray, founded by Count Foulques Nerra, and All Saints, an admirable structure of the 12^th century. In 1219 Pope Callixtus II went in person to Angers to assist at the second consecration of the church attached to the abbey of Ronceray. The Diocese of Angers includes Fontevrault, an abbey founded at the close of the eleventh century by Robert d'Arbrissel but which did not survive the Revolution. The cloister and the old abbey church containing the tombs of the four Plantagenets have great archaeological value.

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