Granville, Manche Facts for Kids

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Granville

The harbour of Granville, with Notre-Dame church in the background

Flag	Coat of arms

Granville

Location in France

Granville

Location in Normandy

Country

Avranches

Granville

Granville, Terre et Mer

Area

9.9 km² (3.8 sq mi)

Population

(Jan. 2019)

12,513

• Density

1,264/km² (3,274/sq mi)

Time zone

UTC+01:00 (CET)

• Summer (DST)

UTC+02:00 (CEST)

INSEE/Postal code

50218 /50400

Elevation

0–67 m (0–220 ft)
(avg. 37 m or 121 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Granville ( Norman: Graunville) is a commune in the Manche department and region of Normandy in north-western France.

The town is populated by 13,021 people, who are called Granvillais.

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Granville railway station
The Granville-Paris Express which overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus on 22 October 1895
Map of Roman Gaul, established in the 18th century; Grannonũ (read Grannonum) appears above the territory of the Abrincatui.
Granville on the Cassini map
Granville in 1846
The burning of Granville by the Vendéens, painting by Jean-François Hue.
The port of Granville at the start of the 19th century
La Plage [The Beach] by Eugène Isabey, 1863
The beach of the Plat Gousset at the start of the 20th century
The railways of Manche circulated trains on the Granville–Sourdeval line and the Condé-sur-Vire–Granville line from 1908–1909 to 1936.
The page of the newspaper Le Granvillais of 21 September 1940, on which appears the article signed "Camille", denouncing the racist laws of the Vichy government.
The bisquine La Granvillaise
Notre-Dame du Cap Lihou Church
The Christian Dior Museum at the Villa Les Rhumbs
The Lys Noir, French yawl from 1914, is based in Granville
Statue of Georges René Le Peley de Pléville, work in bronze and granite of sculptor Serge Santucci and architect François Pougheol.
A bust of Christian Dior in the garden of his house
Flag of Granville
The municipal swimming pool
Entrance of the Louis-Dior Stadium
A general view of the racecourse
The church of Notre-Dame-du-Cap-Lihou
The church of Saint-Paul seen from the upper town
The church of Saint-Nicolas
The Protestant temple
The aquarium "Le Roc des harmonies"
The Christian-Dior Garden
The Val-ès-Fleur Park
The gatehouse of the Haute-Ville
The Château de la Crête
The Bank of France building
The hôtel des bains
The covered market
A general view of Granville from the ramparts
The Plat-Gousset beach
The façade of a Granville house on the rampart, Rue du Midi.

Granville, Manche facts for kids

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