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Port-Lesney

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A small village on the banks of the Loue river in the Jura, Port-Lesney draws visitors with a five-star château hotel, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and a riverside beach. The statesman Edgar Faure and his wife served as the village's mayors for a combined forty years in the twentieth century. A bow-string bridge completed in 1940, the Notre-Dame de Lorette hermitage, and remnants of a historic salt pipeline are listed as historic monuments.

  • Population493
  • Nearest water from center 0.1 km0.0 mi
  • Nearest mountain from center 5.6 km3.5 mi
Climate · monthly averages
J
37°
115mm4.6in
F
38°
105mm4.0in
M
44°
105mm4.1in
A
10°50°
100mm4.0in
M
14°57°
120mm4.7in
J
18°64°
100mm3.9in
J
20°68°
85mm3.4in
A
20°67°
85mm3.4in
S
16°60°
100mm3.9in
O
12°53°
110mm4.4in
N
44°
125mm5.0in
D
38°
135mm5.3in
Avg temp · total precipitation, 1991–2020 monthly normals · ERA5-Land · methodology ↗
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