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Place details
- Locality
- Solesmes
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,325
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Department
- Sarthe
- Arrondissement
- La Flèche
- Canton
- Sablé-sur-Sarthe
- Intercommunality
- CC Pays Sabolien
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Pascal Lelièvre
- Area
- 11.53 km (4.45 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,240
- Density
- 108/km (279/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 72336 /72300
- Elevation
- 22–76 m (72–249 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Solesmes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of la Flèche
- Population
- 1240
- Area
- 11.53
- Elevation
- 56
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Sarthe
- Shares border with
- Pincé
- Official website
- www.solesmes72.fr
- Image
- 72336-bourg.jpg
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- Commons category
- Solesmes (Sarthe)
- postal code
- 72300
- different from
- Solesmes
- associated electoral district
- canton of Sablé-sur-Sarthe
- male population
- 598
- female population
- 600
- P8168
- Chuanjiesaurus
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-2-43-95-45-11
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- twinned administrative body
- Solesmes
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Encyclopedic overview
Solesmes ( French pronunciation: [sɔlɛm]) is a commune in the Sarthe department and Pays de la Loire region of north-western France.
St Peter's Abbey, Solesmes Lying close to the small town of Sablé-sur-Sarthe and almost entirely agricultural in character, the commune is especially noted as the site of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, founded in 1010, suppressed by the National Constituent Assembly in 1791, and re-established by Dom Prosper Guéranger in 1833. A second abbey for women, St Cecilia's, is also located here.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solesmes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.