- Samer
French commune
name= Samer
region=
departement=
arrondissement=
canton= Samer
insee=62773
cp=62830
maire=Claude Bailly
mandat=2008 -2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes de Samer et environs
longitude=1.74611111111
latitude=50.6402777778
alt moy=73 m
alt mini=12 m
alt maxi=199 m
hectares=1 678
km²=16,78
sans=3 105
date-sans=1999
dens=185|Samer is a commune and chief town of a canton in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming and light industrial town situated some convert|10|mi|km southeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D52 and D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway).
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Martin, dating from the
15th century .
* The château du Grand-Molinet, dating from the18th century .
* The ruins of an abbey, dating from the15th century .
* Two museums, of art and of natural history.
* The de la Viennefarmhouse (1700).People linked with the town
Jean Charles Cazin (1840-1901), French landscape painter, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788-1864), was born at Samer.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.ville-samer.fr Official town web site] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=27258&req=Samer Samer on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on September 9th 2008."
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