Engineering:Le Grand-Pressigny
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Le Grand-Pressigny | |
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Commune | |
 The church in Le Grand-Pressigny | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
  Le Grand-Pressigny  Le Grand-Pressigny | |
| Coordinates: [ ⚑ ] : 46°55′16″N 0°48′13″E / 46.9211°N 0.8036°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Loches |
| Canton | Descartes |
| Intercommunality | CC Loches Sud Touraine |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Le Roux[1] |
| Area 1 | 39.55 km2 (15.27 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 37113 /37350 |
| Elevation | 52–135 m (171–443 ft) (avg. 60 m or 200 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Grand-Pressigny (French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁɑ̃ pʁesiɲi] (
listen)) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France .[2]
There is a Chalcolithic flint mine located in the commune. It produced an unusual caramel-coloured stone which appears to have been highly prized across Europe with examples found in the Pyrenees, the Netherlands and Switzerland . Blocks of flint and unfinished blanks were traded, as well as finished tools.
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1968 | 1,415 | — |
| 1975 | 1,256 | −1.69% |
| 1982 | 1,185 | −0.83% |
| 1990 | 1,120 | −0.70% |
| 1999 | 1,119 | −0.01% |
| 2007 | 1,046 | −0.84% |
| 2012 | 974 | −1.42% |
| 2017 | 916 | −1.22% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
See also
- Grimes Graves
- Tony Tebby
- Le Petit-Pressigny
- Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department
References
- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in fr). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503.
- ↑ INSEE commune file
- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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