Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine)
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Ille-et-Vilaine | |
| Arrondissement | Redon | |
| Canton | Redon | |
| Community association | Redon agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 46 ′ N , 1 ° 58 ′ W | |
| height | 8-94 m | |
| surface | 28.05 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,065 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 38 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 35550 | |
| INSEE code | 35285 | |
 Row of menhirs at Saint-Just |
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Saint-Just is a French commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine in the region of Brittany . The village, 40 km southwest of Rennes , has 1065 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2011 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1171 | 1120 | 1121 | 1024 | 997 | 929 | 1076 | 1065 |
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Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Megalithic systems
Archaeologists particularly know the place for its numerous megalithic structures. These include rows of stones (such as the Alignements du Moulin ), pairs of stones (such as the Demoiselles de Langon ), dolmens with side chambers , the large tumulus of Château Bû (Castle of the Ox), menhirs and tertre tumulaire ( Tumuli de la Croix Saint-Pierre ) and the Four Sarrazin complex , which can be visited on a circular route (Circuit des Mégalithes) in the heather between Saint-Just and Cojoux. The number of local menhirs is the second largest after Carnac . The main characteristic of the facilities of Saint-Just is that some of the monuments erected in the Stone Age were reused in the Bronze Age (more than 1000 years later).
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , pp. 1053-1062.
- Jacques Briard , Marcel Gautier, Gilles Leroux: Les mégalithes et les tumulus de Saint-Just. Ille-et-Vilaine. Evolution et acculturations d'un ensemble funéraire, 5000 à 1500 ans avant notre ère . Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7355-0320-8 .
