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Vitré is a French commune located in the department of
Ille-et-Vilaine (Brittany region). Its inhabitants are the Vitréens
and the Vitréennes. The city had 18,037 inhabitants in 2017, making
it the 14th largest city in the region and the 522nd in France. It
is at the heart of the agglomeration community of Vitré Communauté.
Sub-prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine until 1926, Vitré is today the
capital of the canton. It occupies the Marche region in Upper
Brittany. In 2008, the city celebrated its first millennium of known
history, although its past is much older. Its important medieval and
classical heritage has earned it the City of Art and History label
and inclusion in the list of the Most Beautiful Detours in France.
Vitré is the 37th French commune with the most historical monuments
and includes 14% of the historical monuments of the department. It
was promoted to “Ville fleurie”, obtained four flowers in the 2018
winners of the competition for cities and villages in bloom and has
two stars in the Michelin Green Guide. Vitré is also concerned by
urban sprawl and by cyanobacteria pollution of the Valière pond.
Geography
Situation
Vitré is the city-center of a territory
of 98,849 inhabitants which extends, in part, over 4 cantons (Vitré,
La Guerche-de-Bretagne, Janzé and Châteaugiron).
Vitré is an
urban center with 15,502 jobs in 2008. The urban unit corresponds to
the city center, that is to say that there is no agglomeration with
the neighboring municipalities, which are too far away. In the sense
of INSEE, Vitré is therefore an isolated city.
The urban area
of Vitré, made up of twelve peripheral municipalities, had 29,456
inhabitants in 2016, 61% of whom reside in the city center. Since
2002 Vitré has occupied the center of an urban community of 80,000
inhabitants, Vitré Community. In addition, since October 1, 2010,
the former district of Vitré is no longer attached to that of Rennes
but that of Fougères, the latter being sub-prefecture of the
department of Ille-et-Vilaine.
In Breton history, Vitré is
part of the Pays Rennes (Bro-Roazhon in Breton) and the traditional
cultural country of Vendelais (Gwennel in Breton).
In great
circle distance, Vitré is located at:
275 km from Paris
244 km
from Brest
132 km from Caen
105 km
from Le Mans
104 km from Nantes
87 km from Angers
62 km
from Mont-Saint-Michel
40 km from Laval
35 km from Rennes