Vitré

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Vitré

Total population

18,998

WeatherAvg high 61.1°F

Coordinates48.12°, -1.21°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Vitré is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie

Breton writer and historian (1827-1901)

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Charles du Plessis d'Argentré

French bishop

François Baron-Renouard

French painter (1918-2009)

Anne de Laval

French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples

Pierre-Olivier Malherbe

French explorer

Pierre Méhaignerie

French politician

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Robert Guibé

French cardinal

Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré

French priest

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Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes

French mathematician and engineer (1701-1771)

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Jacquet of Mantua

French composer

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Victor Lelièvre

French missionary (1876–1956)

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Claude-Étienne Savary

French egyptologist

Bertrand d'Argentré

Breton jurist (1519-1590)

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Alexis Méhaignerie

French politician (1899–1976)

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André d'Espinay

French cardinal

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Charles Nicolas Croizé des Essarts

French politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bretagne

• Pocé-les-Bois
  1.8 mi away · pop. 1,322
• Balazé
  3.2 mi away · pop. 2,199
• Val-d'Izé
  5.4 mi away · pop. 2,591
• Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine
  6.8 mi away · pop. 1,370
• Saint-Christophe-des-Bois
  7.2 mi away · pop. 559
• Montreuil-des-Landes
  8.5 mi away · pop. 234
• Combourtillé
  10.3 mi away · pop. 613
• Parcé
  10.3 mi away · pop. 647
• Moutiers
  10.9 mi away · pop. 910
• La Bouëxière
  11.1 mi away · pop. 4,563
• Moulins
  11.1 mi away · pop. 714
• Ossé
  11.9 mi away

Browse all places in Bretagne →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Vitré

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Speckled Wood

Pararge aegeria

Seen 2026-06-11

Blue Featherleg

Platycnemis pennipes

Seen 2026-06-11

Eurasian Smoothwing

Scaeva pyrastri

Seen 2026-06-11

Green-veined White

Pieris napi

Seen 2026-06-10

Great capricorn beetle

Cerambyx cerdo

Seen 2026-06-07

viper's-bugloss

Echium vulgare

Seen 2026-06-07

Pale Toadflax

Linaria repens

Seen 2026-06-06

Long-bodied Cellar Spider

Pholcus phalangioides

Seen 2026-06-03

Orange-spotted Emerald

Oxygastra curtisii

Seen 2026-05-31

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Gallery

Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Vitré, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.

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