Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ syʁ lwaʁ] ^ⓘ, literally Saint-Cyr on Loire) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire in central France.^[3]

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Commune
Church of Sainte Julitte
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
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Coordinates: 47°23′56″N 0°40′02″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[1]
Area 1	13.5 km2 (5.2 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	16,766
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,200/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.

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 Tours and Joué-lès-Tours.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,500 —     1800 1,295 −2.08% 1806 1,118 −2.42% 1821 1,329 +1.16% 1831 1,434 +0.76% 1836 1,484 +0.69% 1841 1,620 +1.77% 1846 1,862 +2.82% 1851 1,848 −0.15% 1856 2,113 +2.72% 1861 1,883 −2.28% 1866 1,984 +1.05% 1872 1,933 −0.43% 1876 2,220 +3.52% 1881 2,384 +1.44% 1886 2,436 +0.43% 1891 2,419 −0.14% 1896 2,539 +0.97%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,648 +0.84% 1906 2,699 +0.38% 1911 2,740 +0.30% 1921 2,939 +0.70% 1926 3,114 +1.16% 1931 3,593 +2.90% 1936 4,418 +4.22% 1946 5,652 +2.49% 1954 6,974 +2.66% 1962 9,547 +4.00% 1968 11,211 +2.71% 1975 12,478 +1.54% 1982 14,413 +2.08% 1990 15,161 +0.63% 1999 16,100 +0.67% 2007 15,975 −0.10% 2012 16,133 +0.20% 2017 15,960 −0.22%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

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)^[6]
• 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^[6]
• Two junior high schools (collèges) with a combined total of 700 students: Henri Bergson and Béchéllerie^[7]

Two senior high schools/sixth-form colleges in Tours, Lycée Choiseul and Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson, serve students in this commune.^[7]

The Lycée Konan de Touraine-France, a private Japanese international school,^[8] operated in the commune from 1991 to 2013.^[9]

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.^[10]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

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[11]

Valls, Spain, since 11 April 1999 Ptuj, Slovenia, 1999 Morphou, Cyprus, since 19 October 2002

Personalities

• Anatole France died here.^[12]

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department