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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:
Arondisemen Loches merupakan sebuah arondisemen di Prancis, terletak di département Indre-et-Loire, di région Centre. Memiliki 6 kanton dan 67 komune . Komposisi. Kanton yang terletak di arondisemen Loches adalah: Descartes. Le Grand-Pressigny. Ligueil. Loches. Montrésor. Preuilly-sur-Claise.
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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 Fra...
The town, one of the most picturesque in central France, lies at the foot of the rocky eminence on which stands the Château de Loches, the castle of the Anjou family, surrounded by an outer wall 4 m (13 ft) thick, and consisting of the old collegiate church of St Ours, the royal lodge and the donjonor keep. The church of St Ours dates from the tent...
Liquor, distilling and tanning are carried on together with trade in farm produce, wine, wood and livestock.
Loches was the birthplace of: 1. Fulk III, Count of Anjou(970–1040), one of the first great builders of medieval castles. 2. Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), poet, playwright, and novelist. 3. Pierre Nicolas Gerdy(1797-1856), French physician, surgeon, anatomist, pathologist and physiologist, 4. Ernest Christophe (1827–1892), sculptor, François Rude's ...
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: 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.
History. Since its creation, the Indre-et-Loire department has had few changes: [4] 1790 : creation of the department with seven districts: Tours, Amboise, Château-Renault, Loches, Chinon, Preuilly and Langeais; the capital was Tours. 1800 : creation of three arrondissements: Chinon, Loches and Tours.
