Sancoins
Commune
Donjon of Louy castle
Coat of arms
Location of Sancoins
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Coordinates: 46°49′58″N 2°55′11″E  /  46.8328°N 2.9197°E  / 46.8328; 2.9197
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Cher
Arrondissement	Saint-Amand-Montrond
Canton	Dun-sur-Auron
Intercommunality	CC Les Trois Provinces
Government
? Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Guiblin [1]
Area 1	53.52 km 2 (20.66 sq mi)
Population   (2021) [2]	2,930
? Density	55/km 2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 ( CET )
? Summer ( DST )	UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
INSEE /Postal code	18242 /18600
Elevation	192?233 m (630?764 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sancoins ( French pronunciation: [s??kw??] ) is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France .

Geography [ edit ]

An area of farming and associated light industry comprising a small town and several hamlets situated by the banks of both the river Aubois and the canal de Berry , about 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Bourges , at the junction of the D2076 with the D951 and D920 roads. The commune shares its southern border with that of the department of Allier .

Population [ edit ]

Sights [ edit ]

• The church of St. Martin, rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
• The fourteenth-century castle of Jouy, built by Pierre de Giac, chancellor of the Duke of Berry.
• Several 15th and sixteenth-century buildings in the main town.
• Javoulet lake.
• The sixteenth-century ‘Joan of Arc’ tower.

Personalities [ edit ]

• Oscar Metenier (1859?1913), writer, was born here.
• Marguerite Audoux (1863?1937), writer, was born here.

See also [ edit ]

• Communes of the Cher department

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sancoins .

• Sancoins website (in French)