Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Commune
	Church of Sainte Julitte
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 47°23′56″N 0°40′02″E / 47.399015°N 0.667328°ECoordinates: 47°23′56″N 0°40′02″E / 47.399015°N 0.667328°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Intercommunality	Tours Métropole Val de Loire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Briand
Area 1	13.5 km2 (5.2 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	15,991
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37214 /37540
Elevation	45–101 m (148–331 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ syʁ lwaʁ] (listen), literally Saint-Cyr on Loire) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire in central France.

It is located northwest of Tours on the other side of the Loire. It is the third largest city in the Indre-et-Loire department, behind only Tours and Joué-lès-Tours.

Personalities[]

Anatole France died here.^[3]

Education[]

Lycée Konan

The commune has:

Five public and private preschools (écoles maternelles) with a combined total of 500 students: Jean Moulin, Honoré de Balzac-Anatole France, Charles Perrault, Périgourd, and Saint-Joseph (private)^[4]
Four public elementary schools with a combined total of about 700 students: République, Roland Engerand, Honoré de Balzac – Anatole France, and Périgourd; and 140 students at the Saint-Joseph private elementary^[4]
Two junior high schools (collèges) with a combined total of 700 students: Henri Bergson and Béchéllerie^[5]

Two senior high schools/sixth-form colleges in Tours, Lycée Choiseul and Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson, serve students in this commune.^[5]

The Lycée Konan de Touraine-France, a private Japanese international school,^[6] operated in the commune from 1991 to 2013.^[7]

The École Japonaise Compleméntaire en Touraine (トゥレーヌ補習授業校 Tūrēnu Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a part-time Japanese supplementary school, is held in the École Republique in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire.^[8]

International relations[]

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is twinned with:

Katrineholm, Sweden, since 24 June 1979 Meinerzhagen, Germany, since 12 April 1987 Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom, since 11 April 1993^[9]	Valls, Spain, since 11 April 1999 Ptuj, Slovenia, 1999 Morphou, Cyprus, since 19 October 2002

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,500	—
1800	1,295	−13.7%
1806	1,118	−13.7%
1821	1,329	+18.9%
1831	1,434	+7.9%
1836	1,484	+3.5%
1841	1,620	+9.2%
1846	1,862	+14.9%
1851	1,848	−0.8%
1856	2,113	+14.3%
1861	1,883	−10.9%
1866	1,984	+5.4%
1872	1,933	−2.6%
1876	2,220	+14.8%
1881	2,384	+7.4%
1886	2,436	+2.2%
1891	2,419	−0.7%
1896	2,539	+5.0%

Year	Pop.	±%
1901	2,648	+4.3%
1906	2,699	+1.9%
1911	2,740	+1.5%
1921	2,939	+7.3%
1926	3,114	+6.0%
1931	3,593	+15.4%
1936	4,418	+23.0%
1946	5,652	+27.9%
1954	6,974	+23.4%
1962	9,547	+36.9%
1968	11,211	+17.4%
1975	12,478	+11.3%
1982	14,413	+15.5%
1990	15,161	+5.2%
1999	16,100	+6.2%
2006	16,366	+1.7%
2009	15,930	−2.7%

References[]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Anatole France, The Nobel Prize
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Ecoles." Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "L’enseignement du second degré." Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
^ Home page. Lycée Konan de Touraine-France. Retrieved on 2 January 2014. "57–63 Rue de la Gaudiniere 37540 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France"
^ Denis, Pascal. "Lycée Konan : la fin d'un " rêve "." La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest. 25 October 2012. Retrieved on 2 January 2014. Archived January 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
^ "欧州の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）" (Archive). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014. "c/o École Republique 64 Avenue Republique 37540 St. Cyr sur Loire FRANCE"
^ "Home". newarktwinning.co.uk. 2009. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 29 August 2011.