Cravant-les-Côteaux

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Cravant-les-Côteaux
Cravant-les-Côteaux (France)
Cravant-les-Côteaux
region Center-Val de Loire
Department Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement Quinone
Canton Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine
Community association Chinon, Vienne et Loire
Coordinates 47 ° 10 ′  N , 0 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′  N , 0 ° 21 ′  E
height 27-125 m
surface 38.21 km 2
Residents 672 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 18 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 37500
INSEE code
Website http://www.cravant-les-coteaux.com/

Cravant-les-Côteaux is a French municipality with 672 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Chinon and the canton of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine (until 2015: canton of L'Île-Bouchard ). The inhabitants are called Cravantais .

geography

Cravant-les-Côteaux is about 35 kilometers southwest of Tours on the Vienne . Cravant-les-Côteaux is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt in the north and north-west, Rivarennes in the north and north-east, Panzoult in the east, Sazilly and Anché in the south, Rivière in the south-west and Chinon in the west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 805 751 681 715 747 751 728 672
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Carolingian church Saint-Léger from the 9th century, monument historique since 1913
  • Sonnay Castle from the 13th century with the Sainte-Catherine chapel
Saint-Léger church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 581-586.

Web links

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