Troo
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Commune of Troo |
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| Location | |
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| Administration | |
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| 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) |
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| 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. | |
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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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