Varades (French pronunciation: [vaʁad]; Breton: Gwared) is a former commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Loireauxence.

[2] Varades has since August 2009 been twinned with the small Welsh/English border town of Knighton.

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