Low-Goulaine

Low-Goulaine ( " Bass-Góleinn" in Gallo) is a common French, located in the department of Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

The common belongs to the historical Brittany, in the traditional country of the Vignoble and in the historical country of the Nantes Pays. Its inhabitants is called Goulainais' and Goulainaises'.

Geography

Low-Goulaine is located in edge of the Loire, with the doors of the vineyard of the Muscadet wine, and holds its name of the river of Goulaine which crosses the commune to the North-East.

Low-Goulaine is located at 12 km in the east of Nantes and 42 km in the west of Ancenis.

the common bordering to Low-Goulaine are High-Goulaine Nantes, Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, , Saint-Julien-with-Concelles and Vertou.

History

Administration

Demography

(population without double accounts starting from 1962)
Source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm and http://www.culture.cg44.fr/Archives/fonds/presentationfonds.html

Culture

Blasonnement

Half-compartment, the first, of money to the adextré pelven of its round stone, the whole of azure; the second, of azure to a money pike posed in fasce .

the two rocks evoke the megaliths of the Commune.
the pike the culinary tradition basic Goulaine.

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

Site of the Low-Goulaine commune
on the site of the national geographical Institute
Low-Goulaine on the site of INSEE
Low-Goulaine on the site of Quid
Localization of Low-Goulaine on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Low-Goulaine on Mapquest

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