Champtocé-sur-Loire | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Angers |
Canton: | Chalonnes-sur-Loire |
Insee: | 49068 |
Postal Code: | 49123 |
Mayor: | Valérie Lévêque[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Loire Layon Aubance |
Coordinates: | 47.4125°N -0.8619°W |
Elevation M: | 73 |
Elevation Min M: | 11 |
Elevation Max M: | 83 |
Area Km2: | 36.76 |
Demonym: | Champtocéen, Champtocéenne |
Champtocé-sur-Loire (in French pronounced as /ʃɑ̃tɔse syʁ lwaʁ/, literally Champtocé on Loire) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. Its castle gained notoriety as a scene of some of the crimes of the medieval child murderer, Gilles de Rais.