Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire explained

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Commune Status:	Commune
Arrondissement:	Tours
Canton:	Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason ville fr Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire).svg
Insee:	37214
Postal Code:	37540
Mayor:	Philippe Briand^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Tours Métropole Val de Loire
Coordinates:	47.399°N 0.6673°W
Elevation Min M:	45
Elevation Max M:	101
Area Km2:	13.5

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ siʁ syʁ lwaʁ/, literally Saint-Cyr on Loire) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire in central France.^[2]

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.

Education

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)^[3]
• 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^[3]
• Two junior high schools (collèges) with a combined total of 700 students: Henri Bergson and Béchéllerie^[4]

Two senior high schools/sixth-form colleges in Tours, Lycée Choiseul and Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson, serve students in this commune.^[4]

The Lycée Konan de Touraine-France, a private Japanese international school,^[5] operated in the commune from 1991 to 2013.^[6]

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.^[7]

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^[8]

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

Personalities

• Anatole France died here.^[9]

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department

External links

• Home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.
2. https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/cog/commune/COM37214-saint-cyr-sur-loire INSEE commune file
3. "Ecoles." Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
4. "L’enseignement du second degré." Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20070314010351/http://t-konan.jp/ Home page
6. Denis, Pascal. "Lycée Konan : la fin d'un " rêve "." La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest. 25 October 2012. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
7. "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"
8. Web site: Home . newarktwinning.co.uk . 2009. 29 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20130523134217/http://newarktwinning.co.uk/ . 2013-05-23. live.
9. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1921/france/facts/ Anatole France