Trôo

Trôo is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

The commune of Trôo is located at 7 km in the west of Montoire place chief of canton and at 25 km in the west of Vendôme, sub-prefecture. It is about equidistant towns of Blois, Tours and Mans. From Paris (200 km), one goes to Trôo in the car by the highways A10 or A11, or by the TGV (Montparnasse Vendôme in 42 min).

Trôo is an old troglodytic city built on a slope of Tuffeau which dominates the valley of the Dormouse. Its privileged situation, its rise in 60 meters above the valley and a complex network underground galleries dug in micaceous chalk made of it a defensive site of first order. In XIIe century, it was a fortified town of the County of Maine, then field of Plantagenêt. Trôo was also with the Middle Ages an important religious site with statute of archidiaconé which covered the areas of Trôo and Saint Calais. In 1230, a decree of the bishop of Mans reduced Trôo to the row of deanery which counted nevertheless 45 parishes, 3 abbeys, of the priories and a score of vaults. The city still counts many vestiges of this flourishing time.

Orthography: Troo (without accent) according to the Geographical Official Code , Trôo or Troô is current.

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See too

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

Trôo on the site of the national geographical Institute
Trôo on the site of INSEE
Trôo on the site of Quid
Localization of Trôo on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Trôo on Mapquest
Site of the community of commune of the country of Ronsard

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