Janaillat Explained

Janaillat
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason ville fr Janaillat (Creuse).svg
Arrondissement:	Guéret
Canton:	Ahun
Insee:	23099
Postal Code:	23250
Mayor:	Raymond Dubreuil^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	CC Creuse Sud Ouest
Coordinates:	46.0575°N 1.7464°W
Elevation M:	600
Elevation Min M:	410
Elevation Max M:	631
Area Km2:	28.29

Janaillat (in French pronounced as /ʒanaja/; Occitan (post 1500);: Janalhac) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Geography

A farming area comprising the village and several small hamlets situated by the banks of the small Leyrenne river, some 16miles southwest of Guéret at the junction of the D10, D50 and the D61 roads.

Population

Sights

• The church of St. Saturnine, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The ruins of a feudal castle at the hamlet of Soliers.
• A fifteenth-century chapel.

International relations

Janaillat is twinned with: Ennery, Moselle, France, since 1994

Personalities

• The poet François Tristan l'Hermite was born here at the castle in 1601.

See also

• Communes of the Creuse department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.