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As soon as you enter in this village you're back in the past.

The village was classified by the French state as one of "The most beautiful villages of France".

This village is actually one of the jewels of the LoireValley with its traditional houses, shops and cafés.

It's a former fishing and inland water transport port that sprang up where the Rivers Vienne and Loire meet.

Candes-Saint-Martin displays great contrast with its black slate roofs and its white tufa walls that adorn the houses and the Collegiate Church of Saint-Martin.

Saint-Martin died here at the end of the IV century and the village became an important place of pilgrimages.