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Mons

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commune in Charente-Maritime, France

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Place details

Locality
Mons
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Population
486

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Key facts

Country
France
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department
Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement
Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Canton
Matha
Mayor 2020 2026
Jean-Michel Manceau
Area
15.63 km (6.03 sq mi)
Density
28.5/km (73.7/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst
UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
Insee postal code
17239 /17160
Elevation
14–31 m (46–102 ft) , (avg. 24 m or 79 ft)

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Mons
Country
France
Population
445
Area
15.63
Elevation
22
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Val-de-Cognac
Image
Mons17.6.JPG
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Commons category
Mons (Charente-Maritime)
postal code
17160
different from
Mons
associated electoral district
canton of Matha
male population
216
female population
222
email address
mailto:[email protected]
phone number
+33-5-46-25-03-64
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Travel guide

Understand

Mons was the European Capital of Culture in 2015, together with Plzeň in the Czech Republic. Mons city government website

Get in

thumb|right|Screen door of the Mons Royal Theate

Get around

A free shuttle service runs between 07:00 and 21:00. The shuttles run along three circuits, all of which terminate at the train station Gare B. All run past Sainte Waudru and the Grand Place.

Sleep

thumb|right|The belfry thumb|right|Mons seen from the countryside

Go next

The historic town of Nimy is a few kilometers to the north up the N6. The Grand-Large Marina is close to the Imagipark amusement park, and is a good place to start a canal tour of the local waterways. The MAC's in Grand-Hornu (via TEC Bus lines 7 and 9) is a beautiful museum in a superb historic industrial coal site. Visit also the places near Grand-Hornu where Vincent Van Gogh lived. Cambron-Casteau — home to Pairi Daiza, a popular animal park north of Mons on the way to Ath.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

Mons ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃s] ) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

Population

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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