Introduction

The town of Saint Laurent sur Sèvre which counts 3411 inhabitants, is a town of local cities associations.

Saint Laurent was built around 3 religious congregations; the Sister of Wisdom, the Montfortain missionaries and the brothers of Saint Gabriel. Those congregations are an heritage of Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, who died here, in 1716. The spirituous fame of Saint Laurent sur Sèvre is real with is 20.000 visitors per years, and we can quote as well the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1996.

The school's dimensions are also famous with the school Saint Gabriel-Saint Michel and its 1820 students, 850 of whom are  boarders.

If the area of the town is small with its 1579 hectares Saint Laurent however offer a great economical asset with 2000 jobs in the town. It also provides a large and dense possibility of services with a fifty craftman and shopkeepers.

The local association is equally rich and varied as there are around forty associations with a lot of volunteers.

Finaly it’s good to live and to stroll in Saint Laurent, whatever the season is, as a lot of hiking trails and green tracks bordering the Sèvre’s valley and the Barbinière park. We can find on 40 kilometers of signposted hiking trails; They are located on the hills and the Sèvre Nantaise’s valley.

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