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Today, the port has given way to an urban park on the left bank of the Loire river, complete with a leisure area. Accessible by car, the park has a parking area, a playground, picnic areas, a ping-pong table, a self-service library and a boulodrome, and provides free access to drinking water and
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was covered with houses, towers, and even a chapel. To feed 5 water mills, a 650m-long submersible dike was built in the middle of the river around the 9th century (at the latest).
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Noëlle Lizé, Emmanuelle Plumet and
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63:Location
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291:fishing
200:History
163:Meaning
120:Details
52:Country
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139:harbor
125:Opened
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337:Paris
256:manor
234:Tours
230:Paris
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152:Blois
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