Grand'Landes

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Grand'Landes
Lanveur-ar-Marzoù
Grand'Landes Coat of Arms
Grand'Landes (France)
Grand'Landes
region Pays de la Loire
Department Vendée
Arrondissement La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton Challans
Community association Vie et Boulogne
Coordinates 46 ° 53 ′  N , 1 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′  N , 1 ° 39 ′  W
height 20-71 m
surface 20.49 km 2
Residents 670 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 33 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 85670
INSEE code
Website http://www.grand-landes.fr/

Grand'Landes ( Breton : Lanveur-ar-Marzoù ) is a French commune with 670 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vendée department in the southwest of the Pays de la Loire region . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon and the canton of Challans ( canton Palluau until 2015 ). The inhabitants are called Grand'Landais .

location

Grand'Landes is about 15 miles northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon . Grand'Landes is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Touvois in the north and north-west, Legé in the north and north-east, Saint-Étienne-du-Bois in the east, Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit in the south and Falleron in the west.

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
Residents 996 1,462 770 551 533 480 398 375 407 381 454 605
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié chapel
  • Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 708-711.

Web links

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