Saint Lo

Saint Lo is a commune in north-western France, the capital of the Manche department within the vicinity of Normandy. Although it is the second one largest town of Manche after Cherbourg it stays the prefecture of the department. It is likewise chef lieu of an arrondissement and cantons. The commune has 18,931 inhabitants who are referred to as Saint Lois. The names of Laudois Laudiens or Laudiniens are also noted. A martyr city of World War II Saint Lo was adorned with the Legion of Honour in 1948 and become given the nickname Capital of the Ruins a word popularised by Samuel Beckett.

Saint Lo has lengthy been an vital centre of the financial system of Normandy. It has attracted the covetousness of neighboring international locations, together with England, resulting in lots of successive invasions. It lost its dominant role in the direction of the give up of the 19th century because it failed to take gain of the primary Industrial Revolution, which alternatively affected a whole lot of the predominantly peasant population. However, the decentralisation policy allowed the city to return to the foreground.