Samer

Samer
Commune
The church of Samer
Coat of arms
Samer Location within Hauts-de-France region Samer
Coordinates: 50°38′20″N 1°44′45″E / 50.6389°N 1.7458°E / 50.6389; 1.7458Coordinates: 50°38′20″N 1°44′45″E / 50.6389°N 1.7458°E / 50.6389; 1.7458
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Desvres
Intercommunality	CC Desvres-Samer
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Claude Bailly
Area1	16.78 km2 (6.48 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	3,483
• Density	210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62773 /62830
Elevation	12–199 m (39–653 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Samer (Picard: Samé) is a commune and in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St.Martin, dating from the 15th century.
• The château du Grand-Molinet, dating from the 18th century.
• The ruins of an abbey, dating from the 15th century.
• Two museums, of art and of natural history.
• The de la Vienne farmhouse (1700).

Notable people

• Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – 30 October 1522) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
• 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

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Samer.

• Official town web site (in French)