Troo

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Coordinates: 47°46′40″N 0°47′55″E / 47.7777777778, 0.798611111111

Commune of Troo

Location
Troo (France)
Troo
Administration
Country France
Region Centre
Department Loir-et-Cher
Arrondissement Vendôme
Canton Montoire-sur-le-Loir
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays de Ronsard
Mayor Christiane Morin
Statistics
Elevation 58 m–154 m
(avg. 83 m)
Land area¹ 14.19 km²
Population²
(1999)
301
 - Density 21/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 41265/ 41800
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.
France

Troo is a village and commune in the Loir-et-Cher département of northern-central France. The village, which is partly troglodytic, is dominated by the collégiale or Saint Martin's church.

It overlooks the small church of Saint-Jacques-des-Guérets, known for its Romanesque wall paintings.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Trôo has a number of British residents and figures in the poetry of Geoffrey Grigson.

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Coordinates: 47°47′N 0°47′E / 47.783, 0.783