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The arrondissement of Loches is an arrondissement of France in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has 112 communes. Its population is 118,282 (2016), and its area is 2,742.5 km 2 (1,058.9 sq mi). Composition. The communes of the arrondissement of Loches, and their INSEE codes, are:
Loches (the Roman Leucae) grew up around a monastery founded about 500 by St. Ours and belonged to the Counts of Anjou from 886 until 1205. In the latter year it was seized from King John of England by Philip Augustus, and from the middle of the 13th century until after the time of Charles IX of France the castle was a residence of the kings of France, apart for a brief interlude in 1424 when ...
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The arrondissement of Loches is an arrondissement of France in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has 112 communes.[2] Its population is 118,282 , and its area is 2,742.5 km2 .[3]
The 3 arrondissements of the Indre-et-Loire department are: [1] Arrondissement of Chinon, ( subprefecture: Chinon) with 106 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 103,824 in 2016. Arrondissement of Loches, (subprefecture: Loches) with 112 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 118,282 in 2016.
The Château de Loches (also called Le Logis Royal de Loches) is a castle located in the département of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley in France; it was constructed in the 9th century. Built some 500 metres (1,600 ft) away from the river Indre , the huge castle, famous mostly for its massive square keep , dominates the town of Loches .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Loches is a commune. It is in Centre-Val de Loire in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France .
