Poitiers tourist information
Capitale of the Poitou-Charentes area and chief town of the department of Vienna, the agglomeration of Poitiers, with nearly 120 000 inhabitants, is often called "smallest from the large cities". At one hour of TGV of Paris, Poitiers profits from an economic and geographical environment enviable on the axis Paris-Bordeaux.
Taking up the duties of a regional capital, the city is equipped for this reason with economic and administrative specificities. True "city - area" and network head, Poitiers organizes economic, cultural, and social exchanges between more or less close and diversified territories.
Taking up the duties of a regional capital, the city is equipped for this reason with economic and administrative specificities. True "city - area" and network head, Poitiers organizes economic, cultural, and social exchanges between more or less close and diversified territories.
The agglomeration of Poitiers registers its development through complementary territorial spaces, energy of the heart of the city to the international relations.
Situated on a rock headland between the rivers Boivre and Clain, Poitiers is in the geographical area of the Threshold of Poitou delimiting spaces of the Aquitanian Basin in the south and the Paris basin in north.
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