Vieure
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Allier | |
| Arrondissement | Moulins | |
| Canton | Bourbon l'Archambault | |
| Community association | Bocage Bourbonnais | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 30 ' N , 2 ° 53' E | |
| height | 222-304 m | |
| surface | 29.81 km 2 | |
| Residents | 279 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 9 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 03430 | |
| INSEE code | 03312 | |
| Website | http://www.vieure.fr/ | |
 Mairie Vieure |
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Vieure is a central French town and municipality ( commune ) with 279 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Allier department in the north of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region .
location
Vieure is located in the fertile and wooded landscape of the Bourbonnais at a distance of about 27 kilometers northwest of Montluçon in the valley of the Bandais , which forms the Plan d'Eau de Vieure reservoir here . Vieure is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Louroux-Bourbonnais in the north and northwest, Ygrande in the east and northeast, Buxières-les-Mines in the east and southeast, Tortezais in the south and Cosne-d'Allier in the west.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 |
| Residents | 450 | 382 | 316 | 288 | 287 | 268 | 255 | 270 | 277 |
| Source: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Vieure
- Notre-Dame church from the 12th century
- La Chaussière Castle, built around 1875
- La Salle Castle, built at the end of the 15th century
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier . tape 1 . Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 55-58 .
Web links
Commons : Vieure - collection of images, videos and audio files
