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Place details
- Locality
- Ciron
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Population
- 577
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Department
- Indre
- Arrondissement
- Le Blanc
- Canton
- Le Blanc
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Gérard Defez
- Area
- 57.94 km (22.37 sq mi)
- Density
- 9.0/km (23/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 36053 /36300
- Elevation
- 78–154 m (256–505 ft) , (avg. 101 m or 331 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Ciron
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Le Blanc
- Population
- 523
- Area
- 57.94
- Elevation
- 115
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Creuse
- Shares border with
- Ruffec
- Official website
- www.ciron.fr
- Image
- Lanterne des Morts - Ciron (Indre).jpg
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- Commons category
- Ciron (Indre)
- postal code
- 36300
- associated electoral district
- canton of Le Blanc
- male population
- 290
- female population
- 282
- P8168
- Kingdom of Essex
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-2-54-37-95-92
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Encyclopedic overview
Ciron ( French pronunciation: [siʁɔ̃]) is a commune in the Indre department in central France. It is notable for its twelfth-century lanterne des morts, Eglise Saint-Georges, and the chateau Romefort by the picturesque river Creuse. An abandoned railroad goes through the village south of national route D951, which bisects the village.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ciron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.