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Country
  
France

Department
  
Manche

Population (2013)
  
2,243

Area
  
28.95 km²

Arrondissement
  
Coutances

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Créances

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Local time
  
Thursday 3:41 AM

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Weather
  
6°C, Wind NE at 6 km/h, 97% Humidity

Lessay is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the

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Map of 50430 Lessay, France

commune of Angoville-sur-Ay was merged into Lessay.

Geography

Lessay is a small town in the centre of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.

History

It was founded as a monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th century monastery is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture in Normandy. It was partially destroyed by fighting in the town during July-August 1944.

Points of interest

  • LORAN-C transmitter Lessay
  • La Foire: the Sainte Croix fair of Lessay is a trade fair established in the 11th century in order to develop commercial activity in the village. For three days in the second week of September, 42 acres (170,000 m2) of Lessay is transformed into a marketplace, attracting over 400,000 visitors. The fair offers demonstrations of old and new trades, thousands of stalls selling a range of products from household equipment to animals, food, cars and garden and agricultural tools.
  • Lessay was the location for the studio for English language commercial radio station Contact 94 which was aimed at the Channel Islands before they had commercial radio of their own. The station launched on 5 September 1988 and closed in 1991.

    • References

    Lessay Wikipedia
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