Reception
The town of Descartes
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Footbridge between Touraine and Poitou, old “the Haya” become Descartes, is located at the entrance of the valley of Hollow From the Touraine.
Green station of holidays, flowered city, Descartes is equipped with equipment of leisures combining joys of the relaxation with its medieval garden, its rosery, its animalist mini-park, its base of leisures where you will find a space watery of most remarkable: 6 basins, 2 jacuzzi, hamman, paddling pool for the small ones, toboggan for largest, its camp-site of the Large Mound, its miniature golf, and the Cafeteria of the Two Cedars.
The town of Descartes is also equipped with sports equipment which gave birth to from the champions: Dojo David Douillet, bowling pitch, track of bmx, Cycle-racing track Joel Couillard, track of skateboard, base nautical for canoé the kayak.
Its historical heritage is very rich, with the House Museum René Descartes, the house of the inheritance sheltering the Museum Rene Boylesve, his various churches of which the Notre Dame church of $the Hague with her frescos of the 12th century, and its old district of the Paper mills.
Descartes is the cité native of three personalities of the literature, - René Descartes, René Boylesve and René de Buxeuil -, often named “Cité des three René”. Other famous people were born in Descartes, like Gustave Trouvé, engineer inventive physicist of the 1st electric car or of 1st except edge.
Its geographical location and its specific history contributed to the economic advancement, cultural and tourist of the city. At the time of Web, served well by the communication networks, Descartes remains a modern and dynamic city.
Industrial pole of Touraine of the south, Descartes knew to preserve his framework and its beauty, to offer an incomparable quality of life for its inhabitants and its visitors.
Demography: 3,841 inhabitants (INSEE 2007)
Gentillé: Descartois/Descartoise
Surface: 38.08 km2
Gallery photographs of the city
Discover the town of Descartes by satellite
Géoportail (cadastral pieces - chart of Cassini - chart IGN - air photograph…)
[ date de publication : 30/05/2011 ]
