Saint-Herblain

Saint-Herblain ( “Sant-Ervlan” or Breton “Sant-Hermelen” in and “St Erbelaen” in Gallo) is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is called the Herblinois and Herblinoises .

History

The Paroisse of Saint-Herblain was founded at the 7th century by Saint Hermeland, monk of the abbey of Fontenelle (today Saint-Wandrille), with the call of the bishop of Nantes.

Administration

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Saint-Herblain is chief town of two cantons:

Development

It is a city under development. Counting only 18  760 Herblinois in 1968, it counts today more 45  000 inhabitants with a rate of population growth of 3% between 1990 and 1999, mainly with the development of the borough and the Preux district which extend. The commune receives more and more trade and shopping malls the such zone Atlantis .

Atlantis is a retail park whose starting point was a shopping mall Leclerc which developed with now a gallery of 85 shops (of which the open store of pieces of furniture Ikea in 2002), a retail park apart from the gallery made up of more than 100 stores of which cinemas. Atlantis is the greatest retail park of the west of France, it inaugurated a new style of commercial arcade, a true center of life with fountains, large canopies which let enter the sun and of genuine trees. Saint-Herblain is a very dynamic city which inaugurated at the end of 2006 more big room of concert of the west of France: the the most innovative Zenith of France.


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

At present, after Nantes, Saint-Herblain is the most populated commune Urban community of Nantes Métropole.

Places and monuments

  • the castle of Gournerie, old woman remains middle-class like her church of the 15th century located in a typical borough.
  • the castle of Bégraisière, its ruins, its trompe-l'oeil and its park.

Equipment or services

  • Training center by alternation of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.

Urban transport

  • 2 trams:
    • line 1 which leaves the coach station " François MITTERRAND " until the STAGE of Beaujoire while passing by the center of Nantes, passes near the center shopping Atlantis to St-Herblain, passes by the coach station " TRADE and HALUCIERE" …
    • line 3 which leaves the " Sillion of Brittany with St-Herblain to the coach station " NEUSTRIE with Bouguenais " (since the end of August 2007, before its terminus was HOTEL GOD in Nantes) it passes by the coach station of BEAUSEJOUR to Nantes and PIRMIL to Nantes

Twinning

The city is twinned with:

The city also has pacts of friendship with:

Finally the city sponsors:

See too

  • Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

  • Official site of Saint-Herblain
  • Who is holy Hermeland?
  • History of the commune
  • Geography of Brittany, gate of the cities and countries Breton - Saint-Herblain/Sant-Ervlan
  • official Web site of public transport in the Nantes agglomeration
  • Saint-Herblain on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Herblain on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Herblain on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Herblain on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Herblain on Mapquest
  • Real St herblain

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