Sainte-Adresse (Municipality, Seine-Maritime, France)

Last modified: 2004-01-17 by ivan sache
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by Ivan Sache

• Presentation of Sainte-Adresse
  • Geography
  • History
• Description of the flag
• Claude Monet's Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse (1867)
• Belgian government in exile in Sainte-Adresse (1914-1918)

See also:

• France
• Seine-Maritime (Department, France)

Presentation of Sainte-Adresse

Geography

Sainte-Adresse is a city of 8,000 inhabitants located between the big port city of Le Havre and the edge of the pays de Caux. Pays de Caux is a chalky plateau limited by the river Seine in the south and high cliffs in the west. The cliffs are gashed by (now) dry valleys locally called valleuses, in which fishing ports and beaches have been established, such as Etretat, Yport, Fécamp and Dieppe. In the south, the cliff line ends at Cap de la Hève.

The coast between Le Havre and Dieppe is called Côte d'Albâtre.

Sainte-Adresse was built in a depression located below Cap de la Hève. The city is ad