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Angers
is a city in the west of
France
. Around 160,000
inhabitants
live inside the city and 300,000 live in the metropolitan area.
It is the capital of the historical province called
Anjou
. Today, the name of Anjou is Maine-et-Loire. The inhabitants of Angers and of Anjou are called 'angevins'.
The city existed before the Roman Empire. After the Roman conquest, the city was called Juliomagus. Angers was an important French city during the Middle-Ages. There is one of the bigger castles of Europe in the city.
It is now the 16th city of France (for its population). It is an economic center, a touristic and cultural town. Many festivals happen every year in the city (film festival 'Premiers plans', street festivals 'Tours de scene' and the famous 'Accroches-coeurs'). It has many museums. The museum of Beaux-Arts (a famous Art museum) and "Apocalypse Tapestry" (the oldest and largest collection of medieval tapestries in the world) are very famous.
There are two universities. More than 17,000 students go to the 'Universite d'Angers' (a state university) and 12,000 go to the 'Universite Catholique de l'Ouest' (a private catholic university). The '
Ecole superieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers
' is one of the most prestigious business school in France.
- Road
: Motorway A11 to
Paris
~295 km and to
Nantes
~90 km
- Railway
:
TGV
(very quick train) from Angers-St Laud station to Paris in 92 minutes only
- International
Airports
: Angers-Marce, Nantes-Atlantique
Angers is twinned with:
Haarlem
, Netherlands, since
1964
Osnabruck
, Germany, since 1964
Bamako
, Mali, since
1974
Pisa
, Italy, since
1982
Wigan
, United Kingdom, since
1988
Sodertalje
, Sweden, since
1998
Seville
, Spain, since
2000
Yantai
, China, since
2006
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