Saint-Sever

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For the town in Calvados, see Saint-Sever-Calvados.

Coordinates: 43°45′27″N 0°34′23″W / 43.7575, -0.573055555556

Administration
Commune of Saint-Sever The abbey-church of Saint-Sever
Location

Country	France
Region	Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Mont-de-Marsan
Canton	Saint-Sever
Intercommunality	Cap de Gascogne
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Dalm
Statistics
Elevation	26m–118m
Land area^¹	46.96 km²
Population^² (1999)	(Saint-séverins) 4,608
- Density	98/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	40282/ 40500
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.

Saint-Sever is a commune of the Landes département, in southwestern France.

1 Geography
2 Sights
3 Demography
4 Miscellaneous
5 References

[edit] Geography

Saint-Sever stands on an eminence. It is located 17 km south of Mont-de-Marsan, on the left bank of the Adour in the Chalosse area.

Neighboring communes: Benquet, Bas-Mauco, Audignon, Cauna, Aurice, Montaut, Banos, Eyres-Moncube, Montsoué, Montgaillard.

[edit] Sights

Its streets, bordered in places by old houses, are narrow and winding. The promenade of Morlanne laid out on the site of a Roman camp called Palestrion commands a fine view of the Adour and the pine forests of the Landes.

The church of Saint-Sever, a Romanesque building of the 12th century, with seven apses, once belonged to the Benedictine abbey founded in the 10th century.

The abbey of Saint-Sever was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1998, as part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.

[edit] Demography

Population in 1906: town: 2,508; commune: 4,644.

[edit] Miscellaneous

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The public institutions of the town include the sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a practical school of agriculture and viticulture which occupies a former Dominican convent. There is trade in the agricultural products of the Chalosse, especially geese.