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St Peter Port
St Peter PortImage:Parishes in Guernsey (St Peter Port shaded).GIF|thumb|250px|right|This is a map of Guernsey. St Peter Port is shaded in red.
'''St Peter Port''' is the capital of Guernsey, as well as the main port of the island. In French language|French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is ''St Pierre Port''.
As well as being a parish, St Peter Port is a small town consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and steps on the overlooking slopes.
The post code for addresses in this parish starts with GY1.
==Geography==
Image:StPeterPortSouth.jpg|thumb|250px|right|View of St Peter Port from the South.
St Peter Port is located on the East coast of Guernsey. It borders St Sampson's in the North, The Vale, Guernsey|Vale in the North-West, St Andrew's, Guernsey|St Andrew's in the West and St Martin's, Guernsey|St Martin's in the South.
===Beaches===
A lot of the coast is used up by the harbour but the beaches in St Peter Port include:
* Part of Belle Greve Bay
* Havelet Bay
* Soldiers Bay
* Part of Fermain Bay
===Relief===
The land in the North and by the harbour is low lying but in the South, the land gets much higher (but not as high as St Martin's, Guernsey|St Martin's or the The Forest, Guernsey|Forest). This means that there are quite a few cliffs on the coast between Havelet and Fermain.
==Features==
Image:StPeterPortChurch.jpg|thumb|200px|right|St Peter Port church.
The features of the town include:
* The Royal Court House, seat of the Bailiwick's government
* Hauteville House, Victor Hugo's house of exile (now a museum run by the city of Paris)
* The Town Church
* St Peter Port Harbour
* Castle Cornet, the historic fortress that guarded the strategic entrance to the port. The castle was formerly a tidal island but it is now joined by a breakwater to the enlarged St Peter Port Harbour|harbour.
==Main roads==
The following main roads (listed from North-South) provide important links between St Peter Port and the other parishes:
* Les Banques (leads up the coast to St Sampsons and the North of the Island)
* Rue Des Varendes (leads to the parish of Castle, Guernsey|Castle)
* Mount Row (leads to St Andrew's, Guernsey|St Andrew's and the West of the Island)
* Ruette Brayes (leads to St Martin's, Guernsey|St Martin's and the South of the Island)
* Fort Road (leads to St Martin's, Guernsey|St Martin's)
The following coastal roads (listed from North-South) are also very important as they provide access to the shops, carparks and the St Peter Port Harbour|harbour:
* St George's Esplanade
* North Esplanade
* South Esplanade
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