Orléans

Orléans () is a ceety in north central Fraunce, aboot 130 km soothwast o Paris. It is the caipital o the Loiret depairtment an o the region o Centre-Val de Loire.

Orléans is locatit on the Loire River whaur the river curves sooth towards the Massif Central.

The ceety o New Orleans (still cried in French La Nouvelle-Orléans), in the Unitit States is named efter the commune o Orléans.

Cultur
Museums
 Charles Peguy Centre
 Joan o Arc's Hoose
 Fine Airts Museum
 Ceety's Historical an Aircheological Museum
 Natural Sciences Museum

Pairks
 Parc Floral de la Source
 Motte Sanguin gairden
 Charpenterie gairden
 Plants gairden
 Anjorrant parc
 Charbonnière parc
 Moins Roux parc
 Pasteur parc

Media
 1 TV netwirk Orleans TV 
 1 News paper La République du Centre  (the Centre Republic)

Internaitional relations

Orléans is twinned wi:
  Dundee, Unitit Kinrick
  Treviso, Italy
  Münster, Germany
  Kristiansand, Norawa
  Wichita, Unitit States
  Tarragona, Spain
  Saint-Flour, France
  Utsunomiya, Japan
  Lugoj, Romanie
  Parakou, Benin
  Tyre, Lebanon
  Perm, Roushie

It haes a pairtnership wi:
  Kraków in Poland

Education
The Varsity campus is in the La Source aurie in soothren pairt o the commune.

See an aa
 Cooncil o Orléans
 Hoose o Orléans
 Orléanist
 Roman Catholic Diocese o Orléans Bishopric o Orléans

References

External links

 Orléans commune offeecial wab steid
France on WorldStatesmen
 Tourism Office 
 offeecial wab steid o Orleans


Category:Communes o Loiret