Blaru

Blaru is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 23 km in the west of Mantes-the-Pretty.

Geography

The most Western commune of Yvelines, in extreme cases of the Eure, the south of the Forest of Bizy, Blaru is a vast rural district located on a plate dedicated at the cereal field crop. The common one counts several Hameau X, the Fire-dog, Maulu… It is bordering on the communes of Vernon in north, of Port-Villez and Jeufosse in the east, of Douains in the west and Chaignes, Limekiln-the-Bonnières and Villeneuve-in-Chevrie in the south.

The commune is connected to the common neighbors by secondary roads. It is crossed in its south-western part by the Autoroute of Normandy (A13).

History

Site inhabited since the time of the Neolithic .
Possession of the lords of Blaru, origin Norman, as of XIe century.

Demography

Administration

Culture

Saint-Hilaire Church: small church built in 1910 with the original architecture which has accents of the Far East.
Saint-Adjutor Laundrette: restored at the XVIIe century, this laundrette is coupled with a source to which one allotted miraculous virtues.
Priory of Béthanie: built in the years 1970 for the congregation of the Bénédictines of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.

Economy

Agriculture
Energy: a project of firm wind mill was being studied a few years ago: composed of six wind 100 m height S, installed along the Highway, and of a unit power of 2 MW, this installation could bring back 90.000 euros per annum to the commune.

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