Le Bignon
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |
| Arrondissement | Nantes | |
| Canton | Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu | |
| Community association | Grand Lieu | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 6 ′ N , 1 ° 29 ′ W | |
| height | 3–58 m | |
| surface | 27.54 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,770 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 137 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 44140 | |
| INSEE code | 44014 | |
| Website | http://www.mairielebignon.fr/ | |
Le Bignon ( Gallo : Bugna ) is a French municipality with 3,770 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Nantes and the canton of Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu (until 2015: canton of Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine ). The inhabitants are called bignonnais .
geography
Le Bignon is about 14 kilometers south-southeast of Nantes . Muscadet in particular is produced here in the Gros Plant du Pays Nantais wine-growing region . Le Bignon is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Les Sorinières in the north, Vertou in the north and northeast, Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine in the northeast, Château-Thébaud in the east, Montbert in the south, Geneston in the south and southwest, La Chevrolière in the west and southwest and Pont-Saint-Martin to the west and north-west.
The A83 autoroute runs through the municipality .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1,438 | 1,471 | 1,880 | 2,279 | 2,378 | 2,583 | 3.111 | 3,454 |
Attractions
- Abbey of Villeneuve, founded as a Cistercian monastery in 1201 by Constanze, Duchess of Brittany, destroyed during the Revolution during the wars between the royalist Vendée and the Republicans in the 1790s
- church
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 36-43.
