Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville
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Saint-Martin-de-Varengeville is a
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in the
Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...
department in the
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region in northern
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.


Geography

A small town of
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,
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and a little
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situated by the banks of the
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, some northwest of
Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...
at the junction of the D90, D43 and the D86 roads.


Population


Places of interest


The church of St. Martin, dating from the nineteenth century.

* The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the seventeenth century. * The nineteenth-century chateau Le Breton. * The seventeenth-century stone cross. * The chapel of St. Anne. * Traces of an ancient castle.


See also

*
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