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Coat of arms of Angers
Coat of arms
Angers is located in France
Angers
Angers
Location in France
Angers is located in Pays de la Loire
Angers
Angers
Location in Pays de la Loire
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement Angers
Intercommunality Communauté d'agglomération d'Angers Loire Métropole
Area
1
 42.70 km2 (16.49 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)
 149,017
 • Density 3,489.9/km2 (9,038.7/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
49007 /49000
Elevation 12–64 m (39–210 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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 scène' 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 'Université d'Angers' (a state university) and 12,000 go to the 'Université Catholique de l'Ouest' (a private catholic university). The 'École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers' is one of the most prestigious business school in France.

Transport

  • 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-Marcé, Nantes-Atlantique

Sister cities

Angers is twinned with:


Images for kids

  • Angers vue generale

    The Maine, the castle, and the spires of the cathedral

  • Angers Merian 1657

    The town is called Andegavum Angers on this 1657 engraving

  • Aerial photograph of Angers and confluence of Loire and Maine rivers - 20050911

    The confluence of the Maine and the Loire some 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Angers

  • Angers vers 1850

    Angers around 1850, with the river Maine at the middle, the castle and the medieval town on the right bank and La Doutre and its river port on the left bank

  • Douves jardins Angers

    Gardens in the castle moat.

  • Brozen Sword

    A model of a sword from the Bronze Age discovered in the 2000s in the Maine riverbed

  • Loire Maine Angers2 tango7174

    The castle, seat of the Plantagenêt dynasty

  • Hopital-St-Jean-Angers

    The Hospice Saint-Jean, founded by Henry II Plantagenêt

  • King Rene and Jeanne de Lavalle. Louvre

    René of Naples and Anjou, nicknamed Good King René, and his second wife, Jeanne de Laval

  • Angers - Logis Barrault (2)

    The Logis Barrault, where the Edict of Nantes was prepared

  • Cahier Angers

    One of the cahiers de doléances written in Angers in 1789

  • Pont de Segré (1)

    The Pont de Segré, a truss railroad bridge built on the Maine during the second half of the 19th century

  • Fontaine du Mail zoomed - Angers - 20080803

    The fountain in Jardin du Mail, built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris

  • View of Angers on the Maine river from the castle

    View of Angers and the Maine river

  • Angers - Palais de justice (1)

    The court of appeal in the Jardin du Mail

  • Liqueur cointreau

    A bottle of Cointreau, a liqueur produced in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, near Angers, since 1849

  • Tramway d'Angers à la gare St-Laud par Cramos

    A tram approaching "Les Gares" stop

  • Maison Adam Angers

    The Maison d'Adam (Adam's House) was built around 1500

  • Tapisserie de l'apocalypse

    The Apocalypse Tapestry

  • Angers grand theatre

    The Grand Théâtre

  • Tribune et supporters JB

    Raymond Kopa Stadium

  • Tour des anglais, Angers (1)

    The Tour des Anglais, a remaining part of the medieval city walls

  • Ardoise d' Angers

    Traditional slated roof

  • Angers Oisellerie

    Half-timbered houses in rue de l'Oisellerie

  • Vue sur la Doutre, Angers

    View of La Doutre; the industrial port has become a marina

  • Angers - Tramway - Place du Ralliement

    The Place du Ralliement

  • Nouvelles Galeries (Angers)

    A department store on a 19th-century street

  • Facade-hlmroseraieangers

    A council estate in La Roseraie

  • Ile Saint-Aubin-2

    The Saint-Aubin island protected area

  • Angers 2008 PD 01

    Planted quays around the river Maine

  • Fontaine du Mail - Angers - 20080803

    Jardin du Mail

  • Angers lac de maine

    Sunset on the Lac de Maine

  • Terra Botanica Angers

    Terra Botanica

  • Chateau angers porte interieur gauche

    The distinctive striped towers of the castle

  • Chateau angers tour double

    The castle

  • Château angers jardin châtelet

    The Châtelet in the castle

  • Maison de Simon Poisson - Angers - 20100801

    House Poisson

  • Maison du Croissant, facade - Angers - 20110119

    Façade of House of Croissant

  • P1020272 Angers Logis Pincé reductwk

    Logis Pincé

  • La Maison Bleue - Angers - 20110119

    The "Blue House"

  • Angers 2008 PD 04

    The cathedral

  • Angers - Nef cathédrale Saint-Maurice

    Inside the cathedral

  • Palais épiscopal du Tau - Angers - 20101126

    Palace of Tau

  • P1020199 Angers Tour Saint-Aubin reductwk

    Tower of Saint-Aubin

  • Église abbatiale de l'abbaye du Ronceray

    Abbey of Ronceray

  • Abbaye st Nicolas d'Angers

    Abbey of Saint Nicholas (Mother-House of Good Shepherd Sisters)

  • The bridges over Maine (view from the Angers Castle)

    The bridges over Maine (view from the Angers Castle)

  • P1020234 Angers Musée des beaux-arts rwk

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts

  • Hanno.mahout clean

    Italian drawing, 17th century, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts

  • Hopital-St-Jean-Angers (3)

    Musée Jean-Lurçat

  • Galerie David d'Angers (1)

    Galerie David d'Angers

  • David d'Angers - Profil de Charles-Artus de Bonchamps

    Galerie David d'Angers

See also

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