Vallères
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Tours | |
| Canton | Quinone | |
| Community association | Touraine Vallée de l'Indre | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 19 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ E | |
| height | 37-97 m | |
| surface | 14.72 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,244 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 85 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 37190 | |
| INSEE code | 37264 | |
| Website | http://mairievalleres.free.fr/ | |
Vallères (formerly Avalleria and named in documents Vales-sur-Touraine) is a French commune in the Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire with an area of 1,472 hectares and 1,244 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) . The place is located on a plateau at an altitude of 81 m between the Loire and its tributary Indre not far from the Vieux Cher (or Boudre) river and is surrounded by forests and vineyards . The distance to the city of Tours in the east is 26 km. The municipality is part of the Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park .
history
Archaeological finds in the Boissières and La Salle corridors testify to a settlement in Gallo-Roman and Merovingian times. The first dwellings were built at the foot of the slope near the banks of the Loire, where grottos and cave dwellings can be found. Vallères was later a fiefdom dependent on Villandry , and the church belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Julien in Tours.
Attractions
- Saint-Medard church (church tower and sacristy 12th century, late Gothic choir 14th century, nave renewed in 1852/62)
- Ruins of the fortified Fouchault Castle (15th century), originally secured by ditches carved into the rock and two drawbridges, which had to give way to the construction of the road from Tours to Saumur in 1830 and was largely demolished.
- Manoir du Vau (16th century)
- Manoir de l'Artivière (18th / 19th century)
economy
Sources of income are, as almost everywhere in the so-called "Garden of the Touraine", the cultivation of wine, fruit and vegetables, as well as cress, and pig breeding. There is a distillery and a sawmill on site.
Others
The festival of the Brotherhood of Vintners or "Confrérie de Saint-Vincent" takes place every year on the first Sunday in February, the so-called Festival of Chestnuts and Wild Geese, or "Fête des chataignes et bernaches" on the 3rd Sunday in October, the community festival around Mid-July to mid-August in Fouchault. The area offers opportunities for hunting, fishing and hiking.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 145-149.
