Port-Saint-Pere

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Port-Saint-Père
Porzh-Pêr
Port-Saint-Père coat of arms
Port-Saint-Père (France)
Port-Saint-Pere
region Pays de la Loire
Department Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement Nantes
Canton Machecoul
Community association Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz
Coordinates 47 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 45 ′  W
height 0-52 m
surface 32.57 km 2
Residents 2,913 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 89 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 44710
INSEE code
Website http://www.mairie-port-saint-pere.fr/

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Port-Saint-Père ( Breton : Porzh-per ; Gallo : Port-Saent-PERC ) is a French municipality with 2913 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 Machecoul (until 2015: Canton Le Pellerin ). The inhabitants are called Port-Saint-Périns .

geography

Port-Saint-Père is located on the Acheneau around twenty kilometers southwest of Nantes in the historic Pays de Retz landscape . Port-Saint-Père is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Brains in the north and north-east, Saint-Léger-les-Vignes in the east, Saint-Mars-de-Coutais in the south and south-east, Sainte-Pazanne in the south and south-west, Saint-Hilaire- de-Chaléons in the south-west, Rouans in the west and north-west and Cheix-en-Retz in the north-west.

The former Route nationale 758 and the Nantes-Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie railway line run through the municipality .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010
Residents 1,349 1,361 1,370 1,716 1,695 2.141 2,533 2,820

Attractions

  • Neo-Gothic church from the 19th century
  • Briord Castle
  • Granville Castle
  • Planète Sauvage , zoo with safari park

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 895-900.

Web links

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