Lusignan, Vienne Département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Geography | History | Monuments

🇫🇷 Lusignan is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. It lies 25 km south-west of Poitiers. The inhabitants are called Mélusins and Mélusines.

Geography The town of Lusignan is located on the road RN11 from Poitiers to La Rochelle. It is about 400 km from Paris. It belongs to the Poitiers arrondissement and the Lusignan canton.

Right north of the town flows the river Vonne, a tributary of the Clain.

History Between the 10th and 14th centuries, the history of the town fully overlaps with that of the House of Lusignan.

During the 16th century Lusignan is repeatedly involved in the French Wars of Religion between Huguenots and Catholics.

The city walls were dismantled by royal orders in the 17th century.

Monuments • Château de Lusignan – historical castle of which only very scant remains are left after being long used as a quarry and then fully dismantled in the 18th century.

Europe/Paris/Vienne 

Lusignan has a population of over 3,000 people. Lusignan also forms part of the wider Poitiers Arrondissement which has a population of over 255,831 people. It is also a part of the larger Vienne Département. Lusignan is situated near Poitiers.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Lusignan has links with:

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North of: 46.436

🇨🇭 Vevey 46.462

🇫🇷 Fontenay-le-Comte 46.466

🇺🇦 Odesa 46.483

🇨🇦 Greater Sudbury 46.49

🇮🇹 Bolzano 46.495

🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 46.496

🇨🇭 Bourg-en-Lavaux 46.5

🇨🇭 Morges 46.517

🇲🇩 Cimișlia 46.517

🇭🇺 Nagykanizsa 46.517

South of: 46.436

🇫🇷 Charolles 46.434

🇨🇭 Montreux 46.433

🇫🇷 Montmorillon 46.427

🇭🇺 Hódmezővásárhely 46.413

🇺🇸 Lewiston 46.41

🇫🇷 Saint-Claude 46.399

🇭🇷 Čakovec 46.383

🇨🇭 Nyon 46.382

🇷🇴 Miercurea Ciuc 46.368

🇭🇺 Kaposvár 46.367

East of: 0.124

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harlow 0.128

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bexley 0.133

🇩🇿 Mascara 0.133

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bexleyheath 0.138

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dagenham 0.142

🇩🇿 Saïda 0.15

🇫🇷 Bagnères-de-Bigorre 0.15

🇫🇷 Angoulême 0.161

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Romford 0.18

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sevenoaks 0.187

West of: 0.124

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cambridge 0.117

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Welling 0.11

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Epping 0.109

🇫🇷 Le Havre 0.108

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 South London 0.1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bankside 0.1

🇪🇸 Dénia 0.1

🇫🇷 Alençon 0.093

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 March 0.088

🇩🇿 Mostaganem 0.083

Antipodal to Lusignan is: -179.876,-46.436

Locations Near: Lusignan 0.1236,46.4356

🇫🇷 Vienne 0.333,46.583 d: 23  

🇫🇷 Poitiers 0.339,46.58 d: 23.1  

🇫🇷 Parthenay -0.248,46.645 d: 36.8  

🇫🇷 Châtellerault 0.544,46.822 d: 53.6  

🇫🇷 Niort -0.461,46.326 d: 46.4  

🇫🇷 Confolens 0.672,46.014 d: 63.1  

🇫🇷 Bressuire -0.488,46.84 d: 64.8  

🇫🇷 Chinon 0.238,47.166 d: 81.7  

🇫🇷 Montmorillon 0.872,46.427 d: 57.3  

🇫🇷 Angoulême 0.161,45.648 d: 87.6  

Antipodal to: Lusignan -179.876,-46.436

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17170.4  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16338.4  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16311.3  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15765.3  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12247.6  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12184.4  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12173.9  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 12163.7  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 12167.7  

🇺🇸 Pearl City -157.969,21.394 d: 12157.1  

Flood Risk: Climate Central 46.4356 0.1236

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