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Country
  
Department
  
Canton
  
Allaire

Area
  
22.81 km²

Region
  
Arrondissement
  
Intercommunality
  
Pays de Redon

Local time
  
Tuesday 9:20 PM

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind S at 11 km/h, 82% Humidity

Saint-Jacut-les-Pins (Breton: Sant-Yagu-ar-Bineg) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.

Contents

Map of 56220 Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, France

Geography

The river River Arz forms all of the commune's northern boundary.

History

The Celtic Veneti, and then the Romans occupied the area in Classical times.

In the High Middle Ages, Britons founded several villages, Bodnaga, Brehadou Guidemais, Bina, Redillac, Brandicoet, and Calleon to name just a few of their towns in the area. The name Saint-Jacut-les-Pins comes form a 6th-century Saint Jacut, who arrived with the British emigrants as a boy and established a church nearby.

The parish suffered heavily in the French Revolution.

Facilities

The municipality has a medical home, Doctors, a pharmacy and a retirement home which provides a course of activities health for seniors.

Educationally, the commune has a nursery and primary school (École Saint-Joseph), a medical Institute and a technology high school (ISSAT).

In sporting terms, the municipality has a Sports Hall, and the dynamism of its numerous sports associations (cycling, hiking, running foot, basketball, football, tennis, motorcycling, water gymnastics, hunting and fishing).

Finally, on the cultural level, the municipality has a media library (Médiathèque Saint-Jacut-les-Pins) and many associations (theatre, choral, foyer des jeunes).

Transport

The commune is located 10 minutes by car from Redon station. Nantes Atlantique Airport and Rennes–Saint-Jacques Airport are respectively at 1 h 15 min and 1 h by car.

The municipality is crossed from East to West by the main rail axis of the southern Brittany. This line Savenay - Landerneau opened up to Lorient in 1862, it allows by Redon relations between the stations of the Brittany cities of the South and Paris by Rennes. The municipality has long disposed of a station and then a train stop, currently these two stations are closed and abandoned. The railway history of the commune will may be rebound with freight activity.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Saint-Jacut-les-Pins are called in French Jacutais. In 2011, the town had 1,741 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the town since 1793.

References

Saint-Jacut-les-Pins Wikipedia


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