Saint-Martin-en-Bresse is a French commune with 1,921 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Saone-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It belongs to the Arrondissement Chalon-sur-Saône and the Canton of Ouroux-sur-Saône (until 2015: Canton Saint-Martin-en-Bresse ).
geography
Saint-Martin-en-Bresse is about 56 kilometers south of Dijon in the Bresse countryside . Saint-Martin-en-Bresse is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière in the north and north-west, Ciel in the north, Saint-Didier-en-Bresse in the north and north-east, Serrigny-en-Bresse and Villegaudin in the east, Diconne in the east and south-east, Thurey in the south-east, L'Abergement-Sainte-Colombe and Guerfand in the south and south-west, Montcoy in the west and south-west and Damerey in the west.
Population development
| year |
1962 |
1968 |
1975 |
1982 |
1990 |
1999 |
2006 |
2012
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| Residents |
1,234 |
1,125 |
1,089 |
1,284 |
1,603 |
1,639 |
1,826 |
1,899
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| Source: Cassini and INSEE
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Attractions
- Church of St. Martin, built from 1834 to 1837 (bell tower from 1870 to 1878)
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