Ferté-Saint-Aubin

Geography

The city is located at the doors of the the Sologne to a score of kilometer in the south of Orleans in direction of Bourges and on both sides of the Cosson: besides the Château of Ferté-Saint-Aubin kept the passage of this river.

It is on RN 20, near two exits of the highway A71 and is served by a station located on the line Paris - Toulouse.

Administration

Mayors

Education

The Ferté-saint-Aubin counts 4 elementary schools and 1 college " The pre one of the Kings ". This one does not count far from 650 pupils.

Twinnings

The city is twinned with:

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History

The name of ferté comes from castle extremely . In the beginning, Ferté and Saint Aubin were two common neighbors (Ferté and Saint-Aubin); it have " fusionnées" to form only one of them.

Demography

Inheritance

the castle of Ferté-Saint-Aubin, built at the end of the XVIe century, includes/understands a principal body, stables, commun runs and an arranged park. It was used as decoration for scenes of the Rules of the game , French film of Jean Renoir, left in 1939.

the city comprises a certain number of private castles, dating all from the XIXe century and having primarily been used as relay of hunting. Among the latter, one notes the castle of Papinière of néo-Norman style of the beginning of the XXe century.
the center town comprises some beautiful typical half-timbered houses of architecture solognote.

Tally of life

flowered City: 2 flowers allotted by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.

Gastronomy

the fertésien , filled cake.

Anecdote

Valery Giscard d'Estaing, then president of the republic, visited to the one of the first families profiting from the personalized Aide to housing, coldly created, in Ferté-Saint-Aubin in July 1977.

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