Chinon

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Coordinates: 47°10′04″N 0°14′37″E / 47.1677777778, 0.243611111111

Administration
Commune of Chinon View of Chinon
Location

Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Indre-et-Loire (37)
Arrondissement	Chinon
Canton	Chinon
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Rivière - Chinon - Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Duvergne (2006-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	27 m–112 m (avg. 37 m)
Land area^¹	39.02 km²
Population^² (1999)	8,716
- Density	223/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	37072/ 37500
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

For other uses, see Chinon (disambiguation).

Chinon is a town and commune of the Indre-et-Loire département in France.

1 Geography
2 Château
3 Wine
4 Miscellaneous
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Geography

Chinon is located in the Vallée de la Vienne (Vienne River valley). It is situated on the banks of the Vienne River, at 47°10′N, 0°14′E

[edit] Château

Main article: Chinon (castle)

[edit] Wine

Main article: Chinon wine

In recent years, its wines have come to be recognized as some of the best produced in France. Carved into the banks of the Vienne River, and open to public visits, are the caves, or wine cellars, for Chinon's famous Cabernet Franc-based red wines.

[edit] Miscellaneous

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Chinon was the birthplace of François Rabelais, (c.1493-1553), a renowned Renaissance writer, famous for his Gargantua series. A statue to him stands on the river bank.
Chinon is the setting for the historic fiction story The Lion in Winter.