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 Saint-Lô is today the Préfecture of the Manche and an important economic and commercial centre for the outlying rural communities. With a population of over 20,000, it is the second town in the Département. Shattered during the liberation, thanks to the sheer grit of its people, the town of Saint-Lô has acquired an importance and dynamism that it has not enjoyed hitherto.
During the period of reconstruction the town planners set out to ensure that both commercial premises and housing were well spread out: wide roads to accommodate traffic flows, while the brown schist stone ramparts of the antique ‘castrum’ of Saint-Lô were revealed in all their glory: the houses that had encrusted the foot of the walls were cleared away. Many public open spaces have transformed the town into a quiet ‘garden city’.
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