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Janaillat

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Creuse

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Sunday 7:44 AM

Arrondissement
  
Guéret

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Canton
  
Pontarion

Area
  
28.29 km²

Population
  
367 (1999)

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Intercommunality
  
Pays Creuse-Thaurion-Gartempe

Weather
  
8°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 94% Humidity

Janaillat is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Contents

Map of 23250 Janaillat, France

Geography

A farming area comprising the village and several small hamlets situated by the banks of the small Leyrenne river, some 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Guéret at the junction of the D10, D50 and the D61 roads.

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.

    • References

    Janaillat Wikipedia
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