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Saint Genest d'Ambière
The identity card of the commune.

A commune of Poitou, restful and sprightly !


St Genest aujourd'hui
The commune, located at 30 kms of Poitiers and at 15 kms of Chatellerault, counts 1179 inhabitants (that is to say 36 or more than at the time of the census of 1999) on a surface of 3206 ha.
Average altitude is 110 meters with a climax with 152 meters

The commune has an artisanal zone used by the company Hollywood Chewing-Gum, a company of treatment of wood, a body and a supermarket.
One also finds all the craftsmen essential to the life of a commune (restaurant, hairstyle, garages, body, plaster, painting, plumbing heating, parks, coffee, grocer, butchery, tobacco-newspapers etc...

The commune lays out of a school with 4 classes for surroundings 90 children, nursery and communal canteen.
A la rentrée 2004, une 5ème classe a été ouverte, pour un effectif total de 108 enfants.

Sports grounds and a communal room allow all the sports activities and associative.




Sources:
The New Republic of the Mid-West, edition of Wednesday May 24, 2000.
Municipal bulletin n° 32 of December 2004.


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