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Saint-Maclou is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It has two chateaux within its boundaries: the chateau de St Maclou-la-Campagne just outside the village, and the Chateau du Mont. The name comes from Maclovius, the Latin name for a monk of Welsh origin who also gave his name to Saint-Malo, a much larger city in ...
Saint-Malo was rebuilt over a 12-year period from 1948 to 1960. It is a subprefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine. The commune of Saint-Servan was merged with Paramé, and became the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967. Saint-Malo was the site of an Anglo-French summit in 1998 that led to a significant agreement regarding European defence policy.
The arrondissement of Saint-Malo is an arrondissement of France in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the Brittany region. It has 68 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 172,030 (2021), and its area is 1,070.6 km 2 (413.4 sq mi).
The church of the former abbey of St-Taurin is in part Romanesque. It has a choir of the 14th century and other portions of later date, and contains the thirteenth-century shrine of Saint Taurin. [3] The episcopal palace, a building of the fifteenth century, adjoins the south side of the cathedral. [3]
Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Normandy.The name in fact is taken from the Eure river flowing mainly in this department.
Its area is 659.3 km 2. Its population was 110,023 in 2015, of which 46,707 in Évreux proper. [2] Composition. ... Saint-Vigor; Sassey; Serez; Tourneville;
Dol-de-Bretagne is situated in the northern part of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, 6 km from the English Channel coast and 22 km southeast of Saint-Malo. Dol-de-Bretagne station is served by high speed trains to Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Saint-Malo, Saint-Brieuc, Granville and Rennes.
The Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Saint-Malo (also: Saint-Malo Agglomération) is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Saint-Malo. It is located in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, in the Brittany region, western France. It was created in January 2001. Its seat is in Cancale. [1]