Feux is a
commune in the
Cher
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department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in the
Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire (, , ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (french: région Centre, link=no, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley ...
region of
France.
Geography
A
farming area comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of the Benelle river, some northeast of
Bourges
Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry.
History
The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, t ...
, at the junction of the D50, D52 and the D210 roads. The river
Vauvise
The Vauvise (french: la Vauvise) is a long river in the Cher department in central France. Its source is at Nérondes. It flows generally north. It is a left tributary of the Loire, into which it flows at Saint-Satur, near Sancerre.
Communes alo ...
and its tributary, the Chantereine, form the eastern border of the commune.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Anne, dating from the nineteenth century.
* The fifteenth-century
presbytery.
* A
feudal
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motte at the ''Champ de l'Etang''.
* Vestiges of a
medieval castle, now incorporated in a farm, at Marnay.
See also
*
Communes of the Cher department
References
External links
Website about Feux
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Communes of Cher (department)