Pont-Audemer

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Coordinates: 49°21′18″N 0°30′53″E / 49.355, 0.514722222222

Administration
Commune of Pont-Audemer
Location

Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Bernay
Canton	Pont-Audemer (chief town)
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Pont-Audemer
Mayor	Gaston Lecureur (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	2 m–115 m (avg. 9 m)
Land area^¹	9.35 km²
Population^² (1999)	8,981 (Pont-Audemériens)
- Density	960/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	27467/ 27500
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Pont-Audemer is a commune and the chief town of a canton of the département of Eure, in the Haute-Normandie région of Normandy, in France.

1 Geography
2 Sights
3 Famous Pont-Audemériens
4 Transport
5 Miscellaneous
6 External links

[edit] Geography

The commune is situated on the Risle between the Roumois and the Lieuvin.

[edit] Sights

The commune was spared substantial damage to its historic buildings during the Battle of Normandy. Nowadays the half-timbered buildings and the canals running between them are a tourist attraction. The church of Saint-Ouen is noted for its Renaissaince stained glass.

Pont-Audemer Station.

[edit] Famous Pont-Audemériens

Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978
Hervé Morin, politician, current French Minister of Defence was born there in 1961

[edit] Transport

Pont-Audemer has no rail services but the station building remains open and sells rail tickets. PontAuRail, a preserved railway, runs two Diesel multiple units (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur.