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Saint-Lô (US: / s æ̃ ˈ l oʊ, s eɪ n t-, s ən t-/, French: [sɛ̃ lo] ⓘ; Breton: Sant Lo) is a commune in northwest France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy. Although it is the second largest city of Manche after Cherbourg, it remains the prefecture of the department.
Manche tourism. The Manche department is in north-west Normandy (northern France) on the Cotentin Peninsula which extends into the English Channel, with Cherbourg at the northern end and Saint-Lô as departmental capital. The department takes its name from the English Channel, called La Manche in France.
Manche is a coastal French département in Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of ...
Saint-Lô is the capital of the Manche department in Normandy. As of the 2012 census, population was just under 19,000. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. saint-lo.fr. Wikivoyage. Wikipedia. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo: Ikmo-ned, CC BY-SA 3.0. Type: Town with 18,700 residents. Description: commune in Manche, France.
Sep 9, 2006 · Manche. First published: September 9, 2006 by France Today Editors. France Today takes a tour around this department. Before deploying adjectives and gushing superlatives to evoke the many-splendoured appeal of La Manche – the hunk of land that sticks out of Lower Normandy towards Britain like a gnarled hand, the Cotentin Peninsula its ...
La Manche is a peninsula that’s divided into eight territories. The sea is omnipresent here: it gives its name to the department and regulates its climate. Between land and sea, discover La Manche, a place like nowhere else! La Manche.
Jan 27, 2023 · The other main towns of Manche are Coutances and Saint-Lô, both of which have been prefecture of the département. Saint-Lô was originally the capital but was temporarily replaced by Coutances when it was almost totally destroyed during World War II, earning the moniker Capital of Ruins.
