Port-Saint-Pere
Port-Saint-Père Porzh-Pêr |
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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 | |
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 | 44133 | |
Website | http://www.mairie-port-saint-pere.fr/ |
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.