Saint-Ay

Saint-Ay (to pronounce Saint-I ) is a common French, located in the department of the Loiret and the area Center.

The inhabitants are called agylien () S .

Geography

The city is located on northern bank of the the Loire at about fifteen kilometer at the west of Orleans. It is crossed by a river: mauve of Saint-Ay , short river being thrown in the Loire with a few kilometers downstream.

History

Holy Agylus or Holy Ay was a Viscount of Orleans, convert at the time of a pousuite of slave. He dies the August 3rd 593 and is buried in the chorus of the church. The village undergoes thereafter the vicissitudes of the invasion Norman and the one hundred year old war.

It becomes, at the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century a primarily viticultural commune.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the castle of Neighbors is in fact the only vestige of the abbey of the same name, destroyed at the 19th century. The abbey itself (Abbey of Girls about Citeaux), established in ||1215]], had ceased any activity in ||1778]].
  • the church of Saint-Ay date of the 12th century and contains the relics of Ay Saint. Its stained glasses evoke its life of it. The central nave contains a sanctuary mérovingien.
  • the herboretum is a private garden of 9 hectares in the park of the Castle of Neighbors, devoted to the safeguard of plant species.

Personalities related to the commune

  • François Rabelais made frequent stay with the castle of Saint-Ay
  • Robert Sénéchal; industrialist, pilot of automobile race and aviator French had a trade with Saint-Ay

Gastronomy

  • the cotignac of Orleans , frozen of Quince, is manufactured there.
  • the Saint Ay quinquina is a wine-based drink, bitter oranges and of quinquina

Tally of life

See too

  • Common of Loiret

External bonds

  • Saint-Ay on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Ay on the site of INSEE
  • Localization of Saint-Ay on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Ay on Mapquest
  • municipal site
  • Site of the herboretum

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