Pocé-on-Cisse

Geography

The Cisse is a river which takes its source in the Forest of Marchenoir to Blois, parallel with the the Loire. This river crosses, inter alia, the communes of the Loir-et-Cher of Chouzy-on-Cisse, Onzain, Monteaux, then in Indre-et-Loire, Cangey, Limeray, Pocé-on-Cisse, Nazelles-Négron, Noizay, Vernou-on-Brenne and Vouvray where it east throws in the Loire. The other river crossing the borough of Pocé is the Remberge or Ramberge, which takes its source with Autrèche (37) and which crosses Saint-Ouen-the-Vines before being thrown in Cisse with Pocé. Remberge in the past actuated a foundry established in the park of the castle of Pocé.

Economy

At the end of the years 1960, two multinationals settled in the south of the commune, in limit of the commune of Amboise. The first industry by its surface and its number of employees are the pharmaceutical laboratories Pfizer which employs more than 500 people. Vis-a-vis the company, NCR is installed towards 1968, of smaller size whose activity with Pocé-on-Cisse is a printing works (sales slips, printed papers form various, etc).

Beside the industrial park, with the Villeret locality, the shopping mall of " developed; Ramée" , first of all Intermarket, then Bricomarché, the shopping mall " rivet droite" and finally Vétimarché.

Many craftsmen of the commune settled for better developing around the economic lung of the commune. The borough when with him is to 2 km of these installations.

transport

the SNCF railway station which serves Pocé is in extreme cases of Pocé, Amboise and Nazelles. It is necessary to count 20 minutes to go to Tours (25 km) or 15 minutes to join station TGV of Saint-Pierre-of-Body (arrived at Paris-Montparnasse 50 minutes afterwards) and Blois (25 km), 1:00 for Orleans (90 km); between 1:45 and 2:15 for Paris-Austerlitz (210 km).

Coaches: the line Amboise/Castle-Renault, which marks a stop with the station of Amboise and its terminus, passes by Cissé. The line is reinforced for the school bus service (approximately 15-20 minutes of the school residence of Amboise).

Education

The city comprises a school complex of 180-200 pupils divided out of the 8 classes of the primary education level, which developed since the years 1990 and located vis-a-vis the town hall. The children of Pocé go in sixth to the Choiseul college of Amboise to the school residence of Closed Guards. The colleges of sector is the technological general high school and Léonard-of-Vinci or the Jean-Chaptal vocational school in this same district.

Demonstrations

Brocante empties attic in May, with a fireworks in the park of the castle preceded by the torchlight procession in the streets of the village and follow-up of the popular ball places town hall.

Pocé beyond the borders

Pocé-on-Cisse is twinned since 1998 (signatures of the pact of twinning in 1999 in Grandate and 2000 in Pocé in the park of Chatellenie) with the Italian commune of Grandate in Lombardy, in the province of Like, to 80 km in the north of Milan. Grandate is a small city of 3000 inhabitants to 7 km of Switzerland (Chiasso) and banks of the Lac of Like.

Since the years 1990, the Washington university of Saint-Louis (Missouri) organizes a stay in linguistic France of immersion of the French students with their professors for one month (May-June).

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999 2007=1600

Places and monuments

the church. It is dedicated to Saint Adrien. Many traces of the foundry are still present, as the statuary testifies some (cast crucifix of only one holding Christ and Cross, way of cast iron cross, statue of saint Eloi, main furnace bridge). In the small vault mariale a statue of the Virgin to the Child of the 15th century is. The church was restored and altered with S.
the Châtellenie (or castle of Pocé, which sheltered an old foundry): the park is opened with the walk. One discovers there rare gasolines of coniferous tree and statutes dating from the time of the foundry. The field is the property of the Fondation Bertrand for childhood . On this subject, with the top of the slope in wood the Village of Child (MVE is: movement of the villages of children). The site is a private property, only the park is accessible to the pedestrians. The river which crosses the park is Ramberge or Remberge, the current actuated the foundry. The castle offers a frontage in corbelling. He does not visit himself; he is used as place of reception for seminars, training course, meetings of family. Since about fifteen year, the Washington university of Saint-Louis (Missouri) organizes a stay in linguistic France of immersion of the French students with their professors for one month (May-June).
the castle of Fork (property of Mick Jagger) is a gentilhommière of
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