Discover la charité and its surroundings

The village of La Charité-sur-Loire is a commune located in the Nievre department in the Burgundy region.

To see:

• The Notre-Dame church
• The Priory
• The dwarf house near the church
• The salt attic
• The city walls
• The 'Promenade des Anglais'
• The Gerigny castle
• The old bridge
• La Charité train station

A district called 'le faubourg' was created on a Loire island in Charité-sur-Loire. The faubourg district developed between two branches of river Loire. At the very north of the island one can find the camping and in the south of the island, one can find the river wall called Chevrette that was build to direct the current of the river towards the old city harbour.

Bertranges forest is located less than 5 km from Charité-sur-Loire, and is the second oak tree forest in France after the Tronçais forest.

The forest offers many activities such as walking cycling and horse riding.

La Charité is the city of books since 2000, and has about fifteen book shops as well as workshops dedicated to the arts of book making located in the heart of the city. Each book shop has its specificity such as rare books, old paper, calligraphy, bookbiding.