Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Location of Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly

(2020–2026) Philippe Bodet^[1]Area

19.81 km² (7.65 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

552 • Density28/km² (72/sq mi)DemonymPierritainsTime zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

17382 /17700

Elevation11–69 m (36–226 ft)
(avg. 25 m or 82 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

Geography

The village of Charente-Maritime is at the extreme northeast of the Département, 3 km (2 mi) from the Département of Deux-Sèvres (79) and the village of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, and 10 km (6 mi) from Surgères, the seat of the canton.

Places and monuments

Church of St Paul, built in roughcast limestone in 1871, to replace two older churches that had been ruined by the wars that ravaged the region.^[3]
The commune also has a war memorial, near the Church of St Paul.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	412	—
1968	414	+0.5%
1975	336	−18.8%
1982	390	+16.1%
1990	409	+4.9%
1999	386	−5.6%
2008	440	+14.0%

Economy

The commune is home to the Magernaud site of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), specialising in the improvement of aviculture (bird farming), heliciculture (snail farming) and apiculture (beekeeping). This site also houses an outpost of GEVES, the Groupe d'étude et de contrôle des variétés et des semences ("Group for the study and control of varieties and seeds"), a seedbank and plant selection institution which works on the homologation of new vegetable varieties.^[4] It collaborates also with French: ARVALIS - Institut du végétal ("ARVALIS - Institute of Vegetation").

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime [The legacy of the communes of Charente-Maritime] (in French). Vol. II. FLOHIC Éditions. p. 1091.
^ GEVES (in French)