Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre (, literally Ménétréol under Sancerre) is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

Geography A winegrowing and farming village situated by the banks of the rivers Vauvise and Loire and the Loire lateral canal, some northeast of Bourges, at the junction of the D9 with the D920 and the D307 roads. The Sauvignon blanc grapes grown here are used for Sancerre AOC wines.

Population

Sights The church of St. Hilaire, dating from the seventeenth century. The restored watermill. The twelfth-century chateau des Aubelles and its chapel. The small port on the canal. The nineteenth-century railway viaduct.

See also Communes of the Cher department

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Maps and photographs of the commune