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Saintes
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commune in Charente-Maritime, France
OverviewAI-generated
Saintes is a commune in France, situated in the Charente-Maritime department within the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It serves as the capital of the arrondissement of Saintes, the canton of Saintes-Ouest, and the canton of Saintes-Est. The town has a population of 26,891 and covers an area of 45.55 square kilometers. Its official name is listed as Saintes, Xantes, and it shares borders with Bussac-sur-Charente, Chaniers, Chermignac, and Écurat.
The municipality is twinned with Xanten, Salisbury, Nivelles, and Timbuktu. Saintes is located at an elevation of 81 meters above sea level. The local postal code is 17100.
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Place details
- Locality
- Saintes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 29,512
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
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Official website
Saintes – Capitale de la Saintonge | Site officiel
Site officiel de la mairie de Saintes (Charente-Maritime). Accédez à vos démarches en ligne, suivez l'actualité municipale et explorez la vie locale.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Xantes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Saintes
- Population
- 25312
- Area
- 45.55
- Elevation
- 26
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Charente
- Capital of
- canton of Saintes
- Shares border with
- Thénac
- Official website
- www.ville-saintes.fr
- Image
- Saintes.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- West University Place
- Commons category
- Saintes (Charente-Maritime)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Saintes
- postal code
- 17100
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Saintes
- topic's main category
- Category:Saintes, Charente-Maritime
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Saintes, Charente-Maritime
- Commons gallery
- Saintes
- webcam page URL
- www.ville-saintes.fr/acces-directs/webcam
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saintes
- male population
- 11279
- female population
- 14191
- P8168
- Hippocratic Oath
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- contact page URL
- www.ville-saintes.fr/contact
- phone number
- +33-5-46-92-34-45
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Travel guide
Buy
Cours National and Avenue Gambetta are the main shopping streets. The pedestrianized historical center has a lot of small specialized boutiques, especially along Rues Victor Hugo and Alsace-Lorraine.
Large supermarkets are unsurprisingly at the outskirts of the city; in the Parc Atlantique, at the Maréchal-Leclerc course, and in the Grandes Bauches, Terrefort and Fief-Mignon districts. The main shopping malls are Coteaux (around Leclerc hypermarket) and Hyper U.
Drink
thumb|Le pineau des Charentes, one of the famous drinks of the region, can be had in most bars
Stay healthy
thumb|The esplanade of the Centre hospitalier de Saintonge
Go next
thumb|La Roche-Courbon castle, about 20 km from Saintes, was called Le château de la Belle au bois dormant, "the castle of sleeping beauty" by writer Pierre Loti
thumb|The spectacular Trizay abbey
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Saintes ( French: [sɛ̃t] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Sénte) is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with 25,518 inhabitants in 2021. The city's immediate surroundings form the second-most populous metropolitan area in the department, with 56,598 inhabitants. While a majority of the surrounding landscape consists of fertile, productive fields, a significant minority of the region remains forested, its natural state.
In Roman times, Saintes was known as Mediolanum Santonum. During much of its history, the name of the city was spelled Xaintes or Xainctes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saintes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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