The Châteauneuf-on-Loire

Châteauneuf - on the Loire is a common French, located in the department of the Loiret and the area Center. Its inhabitants is the Castelneuviens .

Geography

The city is located on the the Loire, to 25 km in the east of Orleans.

Heraldic

Of money to the three lizards of sinople posed out of stake and ordered two and one.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of the 17th century built for the Phélypeaux, mainly destroyed and whose remainders shelter the town hall. It comprises a landscape park, initially drawn by Ours with a arboretum;
Church Saint-Martial , with inside, the tomb of style baroque of Louis Phélypeaux (1598-1681), Secretary of State;
Suspended bridge on the the Loire, built in 1839 - 1840 per Marc Seguin, then rebuilt between 1932 and 1935;
Walk of Chastaing , park skirting the the Loire, upstream of the bridge.

Museum of the marine of the Loire , located in the old stables of the castle.

Personalities related to the commune

Ferdinand Arnodin (1845-1924), engineer, manufacturer of very many suspended bridges and transporter bridges establishes its factory of steel construction there.
Maurice Genevoix passed his childhood there.
Georges Deniau (1912-2005) city council man, assistant, showed a great implication in the sporting, social and tourist field.

Demonstrations

Festival of the rhododendrons in the park of the castle, the end of the week of Pentecost.
Festival of the port second Sunday of August.
Festival of the ass last Sunday of July, since 1996.

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.

See too

Common of Loiret

External bonds

municipal Site
Newspaper of local information
Museum of the marine of the Loire
the Châteauneuf-on-Loire on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Châteauneuf-on-Loire on the site of INSEE
Localization of the Châteauneuf-on-Loire on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Châteauneuf-on-Loire on Mapquest

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