Lignières () is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Geography An area of lakes, forestry and farming comprising a village and two hamlets situated by the banks of the river Arnon, some southwest of Bourges, at the junction of the D925, D940 and the D65 roads. The commune borders the department of Indre.
Population
Sights The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century The chateau du Plessis A manorhouse A watermill The sixteenth-century market hall Town hall The chateau, originally a feudal castle, rebuilt in the seventeenth century.
Personalities Singer Florent Marchet was born here on 21 June 1975. Claimant to the Spanish throne, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, lives in the chateau.
International relations Lignières is twinned with: Dunbar, in Scotland, UK.
See also Communes of the Cher department
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