Location
Saint-Lô is in the centre of Manche, in the middle of the Saint-Lois bocage, 57 km (35 mi) west of Caen, 78 km (48 mi) south of Cherbourg and 119 km (74 mi) north of Rennes 查看更多內容

The city, at a crossroads between Caen, Cherbourg and Rennes, has a natural vocation of marketplace in the centre of the Manche bocage. A city of craftsmen and trade, which owes part of its prosperity to its status of prefecture, it has experienced a … 查看更多內容

Facilities
• The Jean Lurçat Cultural Centre: media library, museum of fine arts [fr], auditorium, drawing school and community building.
• Municipal music school
• The Roger Ferdinand Theatre 查看更多內容

Saint-Lô has long been an important centre of the economy of Normandy. It has attracted the covetousness of neighboring nations, including England, resulting in many successive invasions. It lost its dominant position towards the end of the 19th century … 查看更多內容

The city of Saint-Lô falls within the Academy of Caen [fr].
University Institute of Technology
The site of Saint … 查看更多內容

Saint-Lô has been the site of various garrisons at the Bellevue barracks:
• ? – 1923 : 3 battalions (1st, 2nd and 3rd) of the 136th Infantry Regiment [fr]
• 1924–1929 : 1st … 查看更多內容

Births
• Jacques Davy Duperron (1556–1618), poet and diplomat.
• Daniel Saint [fr] (1778–1847), miniaturist of the 19th century.
• Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), astronomer and mathematician, born in Saint-Lô where … 查看更多內容