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       Mehun sur Yèvre, is right in extreme cases of the Sologne, in a country of forests and ponds, the Champagne berrichonne and Brenne. Located on the axis Bourges - Vierzon, the city extends on 133,66 km2 and account approximately 7500 inhabitants.

       The principal road axes count the trunk road 76 Bourges - Vierzon by Mehun-sur-Yèvre and, parallel with this one, the Bourges - Sainte-Thorette road. The railway Bourges - Vierzon crosses the commune of Mehun. Mehun-sur-Yèvre gathers five communes located between Bourges and Vierzon, along the valley of Yèvre, sees natural communication, used as of the highest times and materialized by the Roman way of Bourges with Tours, then by royal main road, before being traversed in XIXè century by the channel of Berry and the railroad from Vierzon in Bourges. The town of Mehun was very industrialized in XIXè century, mainly, but not only, around the ceramics (activity for which it set up one museum).

    Mehun it is also a framework of life, with its door, its castle, its gardens and its "dormeux", nickname which have been given to the inhabitants called the mehunois. The castle and its ramparts overhang the channel of Berry and the gardens which extend on eight hectares.





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