LesAssis, 37460 Orbigny
The property is approximately 1 km from the village of Orbigny in the Department
of Indre-et-Loire.
The surrounding Touraine region is known for its wines, its chateaux and
for the unaccented perfection of the spoken French (easy to understand!)
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This map illustrates the good Autoroute system surrounding Orbigny,
which is marked in blue.
Nearest access to the Autoroute is via Bléré or close
to Mareuil-sur-Cher. |
The house is about 55 minutes' drive from the major city of Tours,
which is the capital city of the region and is a busy communications hub.
Tours is on one of the main TGV lines and provides links to Paris (under
1 hour) and Bordeaux. There are direct flights to, amongst others, Dublin,
London, Porto, Rome and Marseille. Poitiers airport, just over an hour’s
drive to the West, provides direct flights to London, Edinburgh, Barcelona
andLyon.
There are local train stations about 15 minutes' drive from
Les Assis, at Montrichard and St Aignan, that run many daily services
to Tours.
Good Autoroute connections can be made in every direction via the new
A85, which can be reached in about 15 minutes.
Orbigny www.orbigny.fr
The local village, approximately 1.3 miles from Les Assis, is a small,
charming, rural village. It has a population of 769 and is located on
the borders of the Indre, Loir-et-Cher, Montrésor Township and
the Borough of Loches. It is 41 miles from Tours, 31 miles from Blois
and 40 miles from Chateauroux.
Facilities
Basic facilities are available in Orbigny including Butcher, Baker, Church,
Petrol Station, Mechanic, Post Office, Mairie, Village Hall, Café,
Primary School, Fire Station, Library, Tennis court and football pitch.
Cere-la-Rond, another small and delightful village,
approximately 5 miles from Les Assis, also has a butcher, baker, restaurant/café
and grocer/newsagent.
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Further afield are the towns of St Aignan (9 miles) and
Montrichard, 12 miles away, where there are major supermarkets,
weekly food markets, banks, restaurants, cafés and all other shops
and facilities one would need or expect for day to day life.
Loire Valley
Known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language,
it is also noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage
in historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes,
Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles,
such as the Châteaux of Amboise, Chambord, Ussé, Villandry,
Cheverney and Chenonceau.
On 2 December 2000, UNESCO added the central part of the Loire River
valley, between Maine and Sully-sur-Loire, to its list of World Heritage
Sites. In choosing this area, which includes the French départements
of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, and Maine-et-Loire, the committee
said that the Loire Valley is "an exceptional cultural landscape,
of great beauty, comprised of historic cities and villages, great
architectural monuments - the Châteaux - and lands that have
been cultivated and shaped by centuries of interaction between local
populations and their physical environment, in particular the Loire
itself."
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