Pays de la Loire
Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement of Saumur

Saumur

Saumur is a small historical town in the region of , site of a dramatically situated château and the heart of its own world-renowned wine district. It is also the birthplace of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.
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  • Type: Town with 26,200 residents
  • Description: commune in Maine-et-Loire, France
  • Postal code: 49400

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Saumur and Saumur station.

Photo: Morrisjm, CC BY 2.5.
The , originally built as a castle and later developed as a château, is located in the town of Saumur, in the département.

Railway station
Photo: Floflo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Saumur-Rive-Droite is a railway station serving the town Saumur, department, western . It is situated on the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway.

Town hall
Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villebernier.

Village
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
is a commune in the department in western . It is located on the Northern bank of the river, between and . is situated 3½ km east of Saumur.

Saumur

Latitude
47.2596° or 47° 15′ 35″ north
Longitude
-0.0785° or 0° 4′ 43″ west
Population
26,200
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
IATA airport code
XSU
United Nations Location Code
FR SAU
Open location code
8CVX7W5C+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692247
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2975758
Wiki­data ID
Q193821
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Saumur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saumur”
  • Arabic: “سومور”
  • Aragonese: “Saumur”
  • Armenian: “Սոմյուր”
  • Arpitan: “Saumur”
  • Asturian: “Saumur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saumur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somür”
  • Bambara: “Saumur”
  • Basque: “Saumur”
  • Bavarian: “Saumur”
  • Belarusian: “Самюр”
  • Breton: “Saumur”
  • Breton: “Somur”
  • Buginese: “Saumur”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомюр”
  • Cajun French: “Saumur”
  • Catalan: “Saumur”
  • Cebuano: “Saumur (kapital sa arrondissement)”
  • Cebuano: “Saumur”
  • Chechen: “СомуьгӀ”
  • Chinese: “Saumur”
  • Chinese: “索米尔”
  • Chinese: “索米爾”
  • Corsican: “Saumur”
  • Croatian: “Saumur”
  • Czech: “Saumur”
  • Danish: “Saumur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Saumur”
  • Dutch: “Saumur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سومور”
  • Esperanto: “Bagneux”
  • Esperanto: “Saumur”
  • Estonian: “Saumur”
  • Faroese: “Saumur”
  • Finnish: “Saumur”
  • French: “Dampierre-sur-Loire”
  • French: “Saint-Lambert-des-Levées”
  • French: “Saumur”
  • Friulian: “Saumur”
  • Galician: “Saumur”
  • German: “Saumur”
  • Greek: “Νταμπιέρ-συρ-Λουάρ”
  • Greek: “Σαιν-Λαμπέρ-ντε-Λεβέ”
  • Greek: “Σωμύρ”
  • Hebrew: “סומיר”
  • Hungarian: “Saumur”
  • Icelandic: “Saumur”
  • Ido: “Saumur”
  • Indonesian: “Saumur”
  • Interlingua: “Saumur”
  • Interlingue: “Saumur”
  • Irish: “Saumur”
  • Italian: “Salmuro”
  • Italian: “Saumur”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Saumur”
  • Japanese: “ソミュール”
  • Kabyle: “Saumur”
  • Kalaallisut: “Saumur”
  • Kongo: “Saumur”
  • Korean: “소뮈르”
  • Kurdish: “Saumur”
  • Ladin: “Saumur”
  • Latin: “Salmurium”
  • Latin: “Saumur”
  • Latvian: “Somīra”
  • Ligurian: “Saumur”
  • Limburgan: “Saumur”
  • Lithuanian: “Saumur”
  • Low German: “Saumur”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saumur”
  • Macedonian: “Сомир”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Saumur”
  • Malagasy: “Saumur”
  • Malay: “Saumur”
  • Mazanderani: “سومور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saumur”
  • Minangkabau: “Saumur”
  • Narom: “Saumur”
  • Neapolitan: “Saumur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saumur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saumur”
  • Norwegian: “Saumur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saumur”
  • Papiamento: “Saumur”
  • Persian: “سومور”
  • Picard: “Saumur”
  • Piemontese: “Saumur”
  • Polish: “Saumur”
  • Portuguese: “Saumur”
  • Prussian: “Saumur”
  • Romagnol: “Saumur”
  • Romanian: “Saumur”
  • Romansh: “Saumur”
  • Russian: “Сомюр”
  • Sardinian: “Saumur”
  • Scots: “Saumur”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Saumur”
  • Serbian: “Saumur”
  • Serbian: “Сомир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saumur”
  • Sicilian: “Saumur”
  • Silesian: “Saumur”
  • Slovak: “Saumur”
  • Slovenian: “Saumur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سومور”
  • Spanish: “Saumur”
  • Swahili: “Saumur”
  • Swedish: “Saumur”
  • Swiss German: “Saumur”
  • Tatar: “Сомюр”
  • Turkish: “Saumur”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомюр”
  • Uzbek: “Saumur”
  • Venetian: “Saumur”
  • Vietnamese: “Saumur”
  • Vlaams: “Saumur”
  • Volapük: “Saumur”
  • Walloon: “Saumur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saumur”
  • Welsh: “Saumur”
  • Wolof: “Saumur”
  • Wu Chinese: “索米尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “索米爾”
  • Zulu: “Saumur”
  • “Saumur”

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