Semblançay

Semblançay is a common French, located in the department of Indre-et-Loire and the area Center.

The inhabitants are called Semblancéens.

Geography

Semblançay is located on the course of Choisille, an affluent of the the Loire.

Communes bordering

Charentilly, Saint-Antoine-of-Rock, Neuillé-Bridge-Pierre, Saint-Roch, Sonzay, Neuvy-the-King

Localities and variations

Serrain

History

Semblançay would be built on the site of old a Roman villa with the Semblancorum locality.

In 1821, Semblançay annexes the common Serrain.

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999

Places and monuments

One owes the castle of Semblançay (currently in ruins, there remains only the keep and a pillar of drawbridge) with Foulques Nerra. Not far from these ruins, one can see the entry of an underground, close to a casing of stone door dating from the Moyen-âge. This one would go according to the dires until Chinon.

Other particular buildings decorate the corner: pigeon octagonal, a vault built by Jacques of Beaune for the account of François Ier. One recognizes the emblem clearly there royal, the salamander. Moreover, this monument is located in the enclosure of the Field of the Source, place of the course of a famous sound and light: Scénofééries de Semblançay. The source really exists, it is ferruginous and it was a place of pilgrimage at the time Gallo-Roman.

The post office of the village is decorated of a mosaic not very common.

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THE SOURCE:

The home of Jacques of Beaune, which is used as decoration with the spectacle, is today a place of lodging for 25 young people of the Médico-Educational Institute. While returning to you on the site, close to the carpark, you will go along the pedagogical classrooms, classes and workshops. On the other side of the road, a square of buildings constitutes the hearth " three sources". The orientation of these establishments makes a broad place with professional and social integration. The initiative of a live performance has Semblançay, in 1989, had as an main objective to create and reinforce the relations between young people who live here and the inhabitants of Semblançay

The field of the Source is since 1967 the property of Association the Source. Composed exclusively of parents of handicapped children, this association is manager of medico-social establishments in Indre and the Loire. - a hearth of animation in Ambillou. - a center of assistance by Tours work (C.A.T of Europe). - hearths of lodging in Tours.

and in Semblançay, - an médico-educational institute of 38 beds and places. - a hearth of animation of 35 beds and places.

Before 1967, the property belonged to the F.O.E.F.I (federation of works of the French childhood of Indo-China). To 300 Eurasian children were accommodated and attended the schools of the area.

Personalities related to the commune

Jacques of Beaune, Surintendant of finances of François Ier was baron of Semblançay.
Francis Girod, realizer, producer and scenario writer born in the commune. Member of the Academy of the Art schools

Cultural equipment

The commune has a library belonging to association Culture and libraries for all .

Tourism

Semblançay organizes every summer a son et lumi2ere display, the legend of the source, which takes part in famous of the village in the area.

In Semblançay, to 15 km in the north of Turns, will be presented, this summer, the large historical fresco of Touraine. Meadows of 10.000 spectators follow one another each year, since 1992, in order to follow the spectacle.

Gallo-Roman period with the French revolution, in the park of the home of Jacques of Beaune, superintendent of finances of François 1st, Honore Pottier and his Benjamin grandson revive the History and the legend of the Source.

See too

Common of Indre-et-Loire

External bonds

presentation of the commune on the site of the community of commune of Gâtine and Choisilles
Semblançay on the site of INSEE
the Legend of the source

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