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Country
  
France

Department
  
Loir-et-Cher

Intercommunality
  
Coteaux de la Braye

Area
  
16.88 km²

Arrondissement
  
Vendôme

Region
  
Centre-Val de Loire

Canton
  
Savigny-sur-Braye

Population (1999)
  
437

Local time
  
Monday 1:01 PM

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Weather
  
17°C, Wind E at 16 km/h, 54% Humidity

Sougé is a commune of the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.

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It is situated on the Loir River in the Loir Valley, in the Centre region of France. The nearest town of more than 40,000 inhabitants is Tours.

History

In the time of the Romans, Sougé had a special importance because of his Roman's camp, called "Camp of Cesar" in the country. Today the fortifications are not visible any longer, but they were visible in the last century.

Geography

Sougé is a village in the department of Loir-et-Cher, there is 437 inhabitants. The village of Sougé is near the village of Couture-sur-Loir (the village of Pierre de Ronsard). The village of Sougé is near the town of Montoire-sur-le-Loir.

Name

Sougé was called Silviacus (3rd and 8th century), then Selgiacus (11th century), Sugeium in 1216, Sougeium in the 13th century, paroisse des Roches de Sougé in 1595, Sougé-sur-Loir in 1675, Sougé-sur-Braye after the French Revolution, and now Sougé.

Monuments

The spacious church of St. Quintin has a barrel-vaulted roof and early twentieth century glass depicting amongst other themes Pope Leo XIII. There are traces of Renaissance architecture along the main (and almost only) street. The village cemetery contains Commonwealth graves.

References

Sougé, Loir-et-Cher Wikipedia