Candes

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Candes — A Touraine village at the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire, today Candes-Saint-Martin
A village at the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire where the bishop of Tours died, come to reconcile clerics, and whence his body went up the Loire, legend says, under bushes in bloom again. (Editorial synthesis)
Candes is located in Indre-et-Loire. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
Recorded person who died in Candes: Saint Martin.
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