Pittefaux

Pittefaux
Pittefaux
Location within Hauts-de-France region  Pittefaux
Coordinates: 50°45′28″N 1°41′05″E / 50.7578°N 1.6847°E / 50.7578; 1.6847Coordinates: 50°45′28″N 1°41′05″E / 50.7578°N 1.6847°E / 50.7578; 1.6847
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Boulogne-sur-Mer-Nord-Est
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marie-Noëlle Évrard
Area1	2.42 km2 (0.93 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	130
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	62658 / 62126
Elevation	13–102 m (43–335 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Pittefaux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Pittefaux is situated 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D232 and D242 roads and by the banks of the river Wimereux.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St.Louis, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The seventeenth-century chateau of Souverain-Moulin.
• Ruins of a 14th-century castle.
• Two 17th-century manorhouses.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pittefaux.

• Pittefaux on the Quid website (French)