Encyclopedia > Indre-et-Loire

Article Content

Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is département #37 in west central France, originally known as the province of Touraine. It is named after the Indre[?] and the Loire rivers.

The département is marked by fertile valleys and has four significant rivers: the Loire, the Cher, the Vienne, and the Creuse[?].

Indre-et-Loire is the home to numerous outstanding medieval chateaux that are open to the public.

Tours, the préfecture (capital), was a center of learning in the early Middle Ages.

Sous-préfectures: Chinon, Loches[?].

List of Communes of the Indre-et-Loire département of France

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Father Damien

... religious profession on October 7, 1860. Three years later he was sent to Hawaii, where he was ordained on May 24, 1864. On May 10, 1873, at his request, he was permitted ...