River Cruise - La Charité-sur-Loire
La Charité-sur-Loire
La Charité-sur-Loire is a town and commune of the Nièvre département, in France. The town began as the first of the Cluniac priories on an island site in the Loire. In the French Wars of Religion, it was one of the fortified towns granted as Huguenot safe havens by the Edict of Saint-Germain (August 1570). In the Second War the fortified town withstood eight months of siege by Catholic forces. The priory stands as a ruin. The church Sainte-Croix-Notre-Dame was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, as part of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.
