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Chartres (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about 90 km (56 mi) [ 4 ] southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as defined by the INSEE ), [ 3 ] 38,534 of whom lived in the city ...
Chartres-de-Bretagne (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁtʁ də bʁətaɲ]; Breton: Karnod, Gallo: Chartr) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France. Inhabitants of Chartres-de-Bretagne are called Chartrains in French.
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, northern France, standing on Rue de la Mairie. The building was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1939. [1]
Chartres Cathedral, (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, lit., Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres), is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres.
The melody of "Wilhelmus" was borrowed from a well-known Roman Catholic French song titled Autre chanson de la ville de Chartres assiégée par le prince de Condé [7] [b] (or Chartres in short). This song ridiculed the failed Siege of Chartres in 1568 by the Huguenot (Protestant) Prince de Condé during the French Wars of Religion. However ...
Ver-lès-Chartres (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ lɛ ʃaʁtʁ], literally Ver near Chartres) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Population [ edit ]
Dreux lies on the small river Blaise, a tributary of the Eure, about 35 km north of Chartres. Dreux station has rail connections to Argentan , Paris and Granville . The Route nationale 12 (Paris–Rennes) passes north of the town.
Centre-Val de Loire (/ ˌ v æ l d ə ˈ l w ɑː r, ˌ v ɑː l-/; French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁə val də lwaʁ], [Notes 1] lit. ' Centre-Loire Valley ') or Centre Region (French: région Centre, [ʁeʒjɔ̃ sɑ̃tʁ]), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France.