Sancerre
Sancerre is a medieval hilltop town and commune in the department of Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France, overlooking the river Loire. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France Association, noted for its wine and for inventing Crottin de Chavignol Cheese.Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,330 residents
- Description: French commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
- Postal codes: 18300 and 18300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre-Dame church in Sancerre, France and Church Saint-Pierre in Sancerre.
Church Saint-Pierre in Sancerre
Historic building
Photo: Tiggeryton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church Saint-Pierre in Sancerre is a historic building.
Maison Clément
Historic building
Photo: PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maison Clément is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Verdigny and Sury-en-Vaux.
Verdigny
Village
Photo: Bastien.pierre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Verdigny is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Verdigny is situated 3 km northwest of Sancerre.
Sury-en-Vaux
Village
Photo: Bastien.pierre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sury-en-Vaux is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Sury-en-Vaux is situated 5 km northwest of Sancerre.
Saint-Andelain
Village
Photo: Bastien.pierre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Andelain is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. It lies just a couple of km east of Pouilly-sur-Loire, famous for the wine known as Pouilly-Fumé. Saint-Andelain is situated 9 km east of Sancerre.
Sancerre
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Sancerre, Arrondissement of Bourges, Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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Latitude
47.33069° or 47° 19′ 51″ northLongitude
2.83905° or 2° 50′ 21″ eastPopulation
1,330Elevation
252 metres (827 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR SRROpen location code
8FV48RJQ+7JOpenStreetMap ID
node 26695509OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sancerre” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sancerre”
- Arabic: “سانسير”
- Aragonese: “Sancerre”
- Arpitan: “Sancerre”
- Asturian: “Sancerre”
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- Basque: “Sancerre”
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- Catalan: “Sancerre”
- Cebuano: “Sancerre”
- Chechen: “СансегӀ”
- Chinese: “Sancerre”
- Chinese: “桑塞尔”
- Chinese: “桑塞爾”
- Corsican: “Sancerre”
- Croatian: “Sancerre”
- Czech: “Sancerre”
- Danish: “Sancerre”
- Dutch: “Sancerre (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Sancerre”
- Esperanto: “Sancerre”
- Estonian: “Sancerre”
- Faroese: “Sancerre”
- Finnish: “Sancerre”
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- Galician: “Sancerre”
- German: “Sancerre”
- Hebrew: “סאנסרה”
- Hungarian: “Sancerre”
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- Ido: “Sancerre”
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- Interlingua: “Sancerre”
- Interlingue: “Sancerre”
- Irish: “Sancerre”
- Italian: “Sancerre”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sancerre”
- Japanese: “サンセール”
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- Ladin: “Sancerre”
- Latin: “Sancerrium”
- Latvian: “Sancerre”
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- Lithuanian: “Sancerre”
- Low German: “Sancerre”
- Luxembourgish: “Sancerre”
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- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sancerre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sancerre”
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- Portuguese: “Sancerre”
- Prussian: “Sancerre”
- Romagnol: “Sancerre”
- Romanian: “Sancerre”
- Romansh: “Sancerre”
- Russian: “Сансер”
- Russian: “Сансерр”
- Sardinian: “Sancerre”
- Scots: “Sancerre”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sancerre”
- Serbian: “Sancerre”
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- Slovak: “Sancerre”
- Slovenian: “Sancerre”
- Spanish: “Sancerre”
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- Swedish: “Sancerre”
- Swiss German: “Sancerre”
- Tatar: “Сансер”
- Turkish: “Sancerre”
- Ukrainian: “Сансер”
- Ukrainian: “Сансерр”
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- Zulu: “Sancerre”
- “Sancerre”
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