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Mons
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- Locality
- Mons
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 486
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Charente-Maritime
- Arrondissement
- Saint-Jean-d'Angély
- Canton
- Matha
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Jean-Michel Manceau
- Area
- 15.63 km (6.03 sq mi)
- Density
- 28.5/km (73.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 17239 /17160
- Elevation
- 14–31 m (46–102 ft) , (avg. 24 m or 79 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
Mons was the European Capital of Culture in 2015, together with Plzeň in the Czech Republic. Mons city government website
Get in
thumb|right|Screen door of the Mons Royal Theate
Get around
A free shuttle service runs between 07:00 and 21:00. The shuttles run along three circuits, all of which terminate at the train station Gare B. All run past Sainte Waudru and the Grand Place.
Sleep
thumb|right|The belfry thumb|right|Mons seen from the countryside
Go next
The historic town of Nimy is a few kilometers to the north up the N6. The Grand-Large Marina is close to the Imagipark amusement park, and is a good place to start a canal tour of the local waterways. The MAC's in Grand-Hornu (via TEC Bus lines 7 and 9) is a beautiful museum in a superb historic industrial coal site. Visit also the places near Grand-Hornu where Vincent Van Gogh lived. Cambron-Casteau — home to Pairi Daiza, a popular animal park north of Mons on the way to Ath.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mons ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃s] ) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.
Population
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.