Courcelles-de-Touraine

Courcelles-de-Touraine
region	Center-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Quinone
Canton	Langeais
Community association	Touraine Ouest Val de Loire
Coordinates	47 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 19 ′  E
height	79-110 m
surface	25.71 km 2
Residents	494 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	19 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	37330
INSEE code	37086

Courcelles-de-Touraine is a 494 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) scoring French community in the region Center-Val de Loire in the department of Indre-et-Loire . The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Chinon (up to and including 2016: Arrondissement Tours ) and the canton of Langeais (up to 2015: Canton of Château-la-Vallière ). The inhabitants are called Courcellois .

location

Courcelles-de-Touraine is about 37 kilometers north-west of Tours city ​​center . Courcelles-de-Touraine is surrounded by the neighboring communities Château-la-Vallière in the north, Souvigné in the east and northeast, Cléré-les-Pins in the south and southeast, Savigné-sur-Lathan in the south, Channay-sur-Lathan in the west and Southwest and Saint-Laurent-de-Lin in the northwest.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
Residents	484	444	374	360	298	325	393	524
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Saint-Barthélemy church from the 11th century
• Les Sept Tours castle from the 15th century, reconstructed in the 18th century using stones from the Vaujours castle (Château-la-Vallière), now a hotel
• La Tannerie mansion from the 15th century
• Chantilly Castle from the 16th / 17th centuries century

Saint Barthélemy Church

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 336-340.

Web links

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