Saint-Laurent-Médoc
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Gironde | |
| Arrondissement | Lesparre-Médoc | |
| Canton | Le Sud-Médoc | |
| Community association | Médoc Coeur de Presqu'île | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 9 ′ N , 0 ° 49 ′ W | |
| height | 4–41 m | |
| surface | 136.55 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,673 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 34 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 33112 | |
| INSEE code | 33424 | |
| Website | http://saint-laurent-medoc.fr/ | |
 Town hall and portal of the Church of St. Laurent |
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Saint-Laurent-Médoc is a French commune with 4673 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in western France. Until 1986 the community was still called Saint-Laurent-et-Benon .
geography
Saint-Laurent-Médoc is located on the Médoc peninsula , halfway between Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave , the outermost tip of the peninsula.
More than half of the area of Saint-Laurent-Médoc is covered by the forest, grain is grown on 2200 hectares and wine is grown on 500 hectares . The vineyards belong to the Haut-Médoc wine-growing region in Bordeaux . With Château La Tour-Carnet , Château Camensac and Château Belgrave , the municipality has three wineries that were taken into account and classified in the Bordeaux classification in 1855 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1920 | 2034 | 2063 | 2896 | 3338 | 3366 | 3626 | 4673 |
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments Historiques in Saint-Laurent-Médoc
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1296-1303.
