Souvigné (Indre-et-Loire)

Souvigné
region	Center-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Quinone
Canton	Langeais
Community association	Touraine Ouest Val de Loire
Coordinates	47 ° 31 '  N , 0 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '  N , 0 ° 24'  E
height	76-126 m
surface	24.41 km 2
Residents	840 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	34 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	37330
INSEE code	37251

Souvigné is 840 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 Souvignois .

location

Souvigné is about 38 kilometers northwest of the city center of Tours am Fare . Souvigné is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Brèches in the north, Sonzay in the east, Ambillou in the south and south-east, Cléré-les-Pins in the south, Courcelles-de-Touraine in the south-west, Château-la-Vallière in the west and north-west and Couesmes in the north-west.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
Residents	667	622	604	540	527	554	686	815
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Saint-Michel church, built in the 9th century and a monument historique since 1926
• Rochedain Castle, built as a castle in the Middle Ages, today's building from the 19th century

Saint-Michel church

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 367-371.

Web links

Commons : Souvigné  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Église Saint-Michel. Accessed February 4, 2017 (French)