Cluis

Cluis is a common French, located in the department of the Indre and the area Center.

The village is located in the middle of the Boischaut-south in Berry.

Geography

Commune of 1094 inhabitants and a surface of 3532 hectares.

Located at the limit of the Massif Central the landscape of Cluis shows us the zone of contact between the sedentary grounds of the Paris basin in north (calcareous) and the metamorphic grounds of the buttresses of the Massif Central in the south (mica schists).

That results in a landscape scrap-metal in the south which is transformed into cereal landscape in north.

Cluis is located at the center of Southern Boischaut.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

FEUDAL MOUNDS

10th century (private field) - Located between Cluis and Cluis Dessous they correspond to the first strengthened installations of the lords of Cluis. One distinguishes the mounds covered with vegetation with the ditches and the low-courses.

CHURCH

XIIe - Registered MH - Dedicated to St Etienne and St Paxent, built on a Romance church of style transition Gothic novel, it imposing and austere, is built out of sandstone and granite. A statue of the marble Virgin of Paros (XIVe) there is venerated (ND of the Trinity). FORTRESS OF CLUIS BELOW

XIIe XVe - Registered MH. It comprises: châtelet of entry, vault castrale, house of the lord and a vast interior court. It dominates the valley of Bouzanne. The castle belonged to the families of Cluis (Bozon and Girault), of Chauvigny and Bourbon-Montpensier.

MANOR

XVe 17th century - Registered voter MH. Current Town hall of which it is necessary to visit the tapestries of Aubusson (classified MH). THE MARKET

17th century - Market with posts, remarkable frame.

CASTLE OF PUY Of AUZON

19th century (private field), occupied by a Center of Assistance by Work.

WOOD SARCOPHAGI

Xe - Sarcophagi monoxyles including one with lid, in a remarkable state of conservation. Rare parts. Visible with the library François Bailly, saturdays of 14:30 to 16:30.

THE VIADUCT OF THE AUZON

Of a 499 meters length, it comprises 20 arches. Finished in 1899, it was useful until 1952 for correspondence the SNCF between Nickle silver on Hollow and Châtre.

VAULT OF CLUIS BELOW

Built at the 15th century, this vault was restored with XVIIe by Anne, Marie-Louise de Montpensier, called “the Large Young lady”, cousin of Louis XIV. New restoration in 1792 by the commune and finally in 1880 by the Camard Abbot, who made repair and to increase the Vault such as one can see it today.

Festivals and events

Festival of Luma (Snail in Berrichon)

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Indre

External bonds

Official site of the town hall of Cluis
Cluis on the site of the national geographical Institute
Cluis on the site of INSEE
Cluis on the site of Quid
Localization of Cluis on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Cluis on Mapquest
Géolocalisation of the Viaduct of Cluis

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