Tourouvre | |
Arrondissement: | Mortagne-au-Perche |
Canton: | Tourouvre (chef-lieu) |
Insee: | 61491 |
Postal Code: | 61190 |
Commune: | Tourouvre au Perche |
Coordinates: | 48.5911°N 0.6522°W |
Elevation M: | 236 |
Elevation Min M: | 180 |
Elevation Max M: | 304 |
Area Km2: | 24.01 |
Population: | 1519 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Tourouvre (in French pronounced as /tuʁuvʁ/) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Tourouvre au Perche.[2]
The first photovoltaic road in the world was under construction in Tourouvre in November–December 2016.[3] It was built by Société Nouvelle Aeracem (SNA), and dedicated by the French Minister of Ecology, Ségolène Royal on 25 October 2016.[3] In 2019, Le Monde declared the experiment a failure.[4]