Saint-Sever
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- For the town in Calvados, see Saint-Sever-Calvados.
| Commune of Saint-Sever | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 00° 34' 23" W |
| Latitude | 43° 45' 27" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Landes |
| Arrondissement | Mont-de-Marsan |
| Canton | Saint-Sever |
| Intercommunality | Cap de Gascogne |
| Mayor | Jean-Pierre Dalm |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 26m–118m |
| Land area¹ | 46.96 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
(Saint-séverins) 4,608 |
| - Density (1999) | 98/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 40282/ 40500 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Saint-Sever is a commune of the Landes département, in southwestern France.
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[edit] Geography
Saint-Sever stands on an eminence. It is located 17 km south of Mont-de-Marsan, on the left bank of the Adour in the Chalosse area.
Neighboring communes: Benquet, Bas-Mauco, Audignon, Cauna, Aurice, Montaut, Banos, Eyres-Moncube, Montsoué, Montgaillard.
[edit] Sights
Its streets, bordered in places by old houses, are narrow and winding. The promenade of Morlanne laid out on the site of a Roman camp called Palestrion commands a fine view of the Adour and the pine forests of the Landes.
The church of Saint-Sever, a Romanesque building of the 12th century, with seven apses, once belonged to the Benedictine abbey founded in the 10th century.
The abbey of Saint-Sever was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1998, as part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.
[edit] Miscellaneous
The public institutions of the town include the sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a practical school of agriculture and viticulture which occupies a former Dominican convent. There is trade in the agricultural products of the Chalosse, especially geese.
Population in 1906: town: 2,508; commune: 4,644.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
