The Saint-Dyé-on-Loire

the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

Located on left bank of the Loire between Beauce and the Sologne, to 15 km in the south-east of Blois, Saint-Dyé is a historical small village, S, in charge of history through its lanes, its old houses, its wells, its fortifications, its port river which accommodated materials necessary to the construction of the castle of Chambord.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Stage on the road of Turns in Orleans, the city is crossed by the funeral convoys of Louis XI, Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany. The famous characters do not certainly cross all Saint-Dyé “the feet the first”. François Ier comes to Saint-Dyé in June 1523. D' Artagnan tells in its memory the mishaps which arrived to him in this town of Dyé Saint. The local legend said that it was locked up in the room of the vergers (old sacristy). It is wrongly that Alexandre Dumas will locate these episodes later at Meung-sur-Loire.

August 23rd, 1653, the Fountain takes lodging with Saint-Dyé. Madam de Sévigné, descending the Loire, made there halt. At the 18th century, Stanislas Leczinski, fleeing the unhealthy marshes of Chambord, lives Saint-Dyé into 1727 before taking lodging with Ménars. The marshal of Saxony installs here a military hospital, but also a house where it spent the moments extremely gallant and deprived of all preoccupations with a pilgrimage. Saint-Dyé, town of pilgrimage, strengthened city, become a port which will take importance with the construction of Chambord. Most of the stones intended for the construction of the castle, passes indeed by the wearing of Saint-Dyé. One also speaks about visits of Molière and Jeanne d' Arc who made there a passage during her increase of the Loire on the road which started from Chinon and which was to carry out it towards the victory of Orleans against the English enemy.

See too

House of the Loire and the Loir-et-Cher: inaugurated in 1987 and installed in an old relay of station of the 17th century, the House of the Loire of the Loir-et-Cher is an association of law 1901.

Approved “Association of Protection of nature and the Environment”, it proposes actions of discovered and sensitizing contributing to a better knowledge of the Loire river, of its inheritance and its environment:

- for submission to the children: animations for the school ones, the recreational centres, and organization of training courses during school vacations,

- for submission to the buildings, families, tourists: exits naturalists, guided visits, conferences, etc True place of information, the House of the Loire of the Loir-et-Cher offers also various spaces of exposures:

- permanent exposures on the marine of the Loire, the river trade, the boats, the ports, or fishes it in the Loire,

- temporary exhibitions to know the environment ligérien.

A resource center is at disposal for all information concerning the ligérien medium. True sentinels on the Loire, other Houses of the Loire and a Loire Observatory are dispersed along the river in Center area (Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, and Expensive). Joined together of federation, they link their competences, reinforce their speech, their preventive actions and of promotion ligériennes.

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

the official site of the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire (historical port of Chambord)
the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire on the site of INSEE
the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire on the site of Quid
Localization of the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Saint-Dyé-on-Loire on Mapquest

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