Saint-Nicolas-of-Port

Saint-Nicolas-of-Port is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine. At one time Saint Nicolas's Day because of its splendid Basilica, it took its current name the April 2nd 1961. Its inhabitants are the Portois .

The commune is located on left bank of the Meurthe vis-a-vis Varangéville. By the D400 secondary road, it is to 13 km of Nancy and 18 km of Lunéville, but the highway A33 accommodates the principal flow of circulation.

History

At the time Gallo-Roman, it was called simply Port , until the construction of a first church in 1093, intended to receive a relic of the bishop of Myre in Turkey Saint Nicolas. Later, in 1193, one second will be built. It is in this church that will come to request Jeanne d' Arc in 1429. The current basilica will be built to achieve the wish of the duke Rene II at the time the battle of Nancy (January 5th, 1477) by Simon Moycet in 1481 (devoted in 1560).

The city was entirely ransacked and burned by the Swedish the .elle November 5th 1635 was égaelement victim of severe bombardment in 1940.

The Channel of the Marne in the Rhine, built about the middle of the 19th century, skirts the city.

Administration

Chief town of a canton gathering the following communes: Dombasle-on-Meurthe, Saint-Nicolas-of-Port , Richardménil, Rosières-with-Saltworks, the Flavigny-on-Moselle, Tonnoy, City-in-Vermois, Azelot, Lupcourt, Manoncourt-in-Vermois, Tool bags, Coyviller, Burthecourt-with-Oaks and Saffais.

Demography

Inheritance

the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-of-Port , with the paces of cathedral and Gothic style blazing, has impressive dimensions: a nave of 32m top, columns slim 28m (most of France) and two turns of 85 and 87m respectively. Its volumes are harmonious and the basilica shown an astonishing unit of style. It was restored starting from 1983 thanks to the considerable legacy of Mrs. Camille Croué-Friedman, an American rich person originating in this city. Lastly, it shelters a relic of Saint Nicolas's Day, its phalange " dextral bénissante".

the French museum of the brewery (http://www.passionbrasserie.com): In the buildings of old the Brewery of Saint-Nicolas-of-Port, is an important museum on mixing, the history of the brewery and the beer. In addition a dynamics around mixing it east creates, thus making Saint-Nicolas-of-Port a pole impossible to circumvent of mixing amateur or artisanal in France.

the museum of the cinema : Installed in the buildings of the old college St Exupéry

External bonds

Official site of the commune
Site of Luc Binsinger, mayor of the commune
Site of Daniel Poissy, city council man
Site of the French museum of the brewery
Museum of the cinema and photography
Site of Knowledge and Rebirth of the basilica
History of the basilica and of its stained glasses
Saint-Nicolas-of-Port on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Nicolas-of-Port on the site of INSEE
Saint-Nicolas-of-Port on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Nicolas-of-Port on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Nicolas-of-Port on Mapquest

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