Fontaine-le-Port

Fontaine-le-Port
Commune
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Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°29′10″N 2°45′50″E / 48.4861°N 2.7639°E / 48.4861; 2.7639Coordinates: 48°29′10″N 2°45′50″E / 48.4861°N 2.7639°E / 48.4861; 2.7639
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Melun
Canton	Nangis
Intercommunality	CC Brie des Rivières et Châteaux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Béatrice Mothré
Area 1	7.89 km2 (3.05 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,010
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77188 /77590
Elevation	41–97 m (135–318 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontaine-le-Port (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tɛn lə pɔʁ] (listen)) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Demographics[]

Fontaine-le-Port has a population of approximately 800. Inhabitants of Fontaine-le-Port are called Portifontains. There is a train station with trains direct to Gare de Lyon (Paris) during peak times and with a connection in Melun on off-peak times. Fontaine Le Port has a primary school as well as a bakery and borders the Seine with a view of the Fontainebleau Forest. The former Barbeau Abbey, dissolved in the French Revolution, was sited here.

See also[]

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fontaine-le-Port.

• 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

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