commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
region
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of
France
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forestry
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and
farming
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comprising the village and several hamlets, situated some south of Bourges, at the junction of the D10, D92 and the D37 roads.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Aubin, dating from the sixteenth century.
* The thirteenth-century château de Meillant, once the home of the
house of Amboise
The house of Amboise was one of the oldest families of the French nobility whose followed filiation dated back to the early twelfth century. It took its name from the town of Amboise in Touraine.
The house of Amboise formed the two branches of T ...
.
* Several houses dating from the sixteenth century.
* A seventeenth-century washhouse at the hamlet of Saint-Rhamble.
* Traces of a 17th-century
priory
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of ...
.
* The sixteenth-century chapel at the chateau.
* Some parts of the
convent
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of Saint Catherine.
* A
museum
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