Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets
Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets Sant-Yowan-an-Havreg |
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Ille-et-Vilaine | |
Arrondissement | Saint Malo | |
Canton | Saint-Malo-2 | |
Community association | Pays de Saint-Malo | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 36 ′ N , 1 ° 58 ′ W | |
height | 0-61 m | |
surface | 9.24 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,646 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 286 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 35430 | |
INSEE code | 35284 | |
Website | http://www.mairie-saintjouan.fr/ | |
Town hall (Mairie) of Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets |
Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets ( Breton Sant-Yowan-an-Havreg ) is a municipality with 2,646 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in Brittany in north-western France in the Ille-et-Vilaine department . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Malo and the canton of Saint-Malo-2 (until 2015: canton of Saint-Malo-Sud ). The inhabitants are called Jouannais (es) .
geography
Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets is located on the eastern bank of the Rance estuary . Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Malo in the north, Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes in the north-east, Saint-Père-Marc-en-Poulet in the east and south-east and on the other bank of the Saint Estuary -Suliac in the south, Le Minihic-sur-Rance in the southwest and Pleurtuit in the west.
The former route nationale 137 (today's D137) runs through the municipality .
Population development
year | 1793 | 1856 | 1901 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
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Residents | 1,130 | 1,600 | 1,257 | 1,023 | 1,025 | 1,236 | 1.406 | 2,221 | 2,484 | 2,660 | 2,603 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Jean-Baptiste church, neo-Romanesque church, built between 1861 and 1866
- Malounière of La Plussinais, built at the beginning of the 18th century, has been a monument historique since 1980
- Chevret Island located in the Rance estuary
Personalities
- Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , pp. 1508-1512.