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Commune of Chinon |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Centre |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire (37) |
| Arrondissement | Chinon |
| Canton | Chinon |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Rivière - Chinon - Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt |
| Mayor | Jean-Pierre Duvergne (2006-2008) |
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| Elevation | 27 m–112 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Centre is one of the 26 regions of France, located towards the northwest of the actual centre of the country In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Chinon is an arrondissement of France located in the Indre-et-Loire département, in the Centre The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 37 m) |
| Land area¹ | 39. 02 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
8,716 |
| - Density | 223/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 37072/ 37500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Chinon is a town and commune of the Indre-et-Loire département in France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
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Geography
Chinon is located in the Vallée de la Vienne (Vienne River valley). It is situated on the banks of the Vienne River, at
Château
Wine
In recent years, its wines have come to be recognized as some of the best produced in France. The Vienne is one of the most important Rivers in south-western France, a significant left tributary of the lower Loire. Chinon is a castle located on the bank of the Vienne river in Chinon, France. Chinon wine comes from the vineyards around the town of Chinon in Touraine. Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice Carved into the banks of the Vienne River, and open to public visits, are the caves, or wine cellars, for Chinon's famous Cabernet Franc-based red wines. Cabernet Franc is one of the major varieties of red Wine Grape in Bordeaux
Miscellaneous
- Chinon was the birthplace of François Rabelais, (c. 1493-1553), a renowned Renaissance writer, famous for his Gargantua series. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua A statue to him stands on the river bank.
- Chinon is the setting for the historic fiction story The Lion in Winter. The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman, who also cinematically adapted it in 1968 for the film directed by
See also
- French wine
- List of Castles in France
- Chinon Parchment
References
External links
French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, on over 800000 Hectares (over 2 million Acres of Vineyards and in a typical The Chinon Parchment is a Historical document, published by Étienne Baluze in Vitae Paparum Avenionensis ("Lives of the Popes of Avignon"Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic