Administrative-territorial structure
The island is subdivided into 12 parishes belonging to the Diocese of Coutances of the Roman Catholic Church. They are also units of the administrative-territorial division of Jersey. The most densely populated is the metropolitan parish of Saint Helier (Saint-Elie) and the adjoining parishes of Saint-Savior (Saint-Savert), Saint-Clement (Saint-Clément), Gorey and Saint-Aubin (Saint-Aubin).
Flora and fauna
The first thing that catches your eye here is a lot of birds. Conventionally, they can be divided into two groups: those that fly here for the winter and spend time on fertile lands south and southeast coasts, and those that settle in the rocks of Jersey in the spring and summer to breed. In autumn, marsh birds also appear on the island, looking for food in the coastal sands. It would take too much time to list all the species of Jersey's feathered inhabitants, so it is perhaps worth mentioning only the most famous breeds. So, most often on the island you can see woodpeckers, pikas, green-eyed cormorants, terns, waders, kingfishers, herons, gulls and petrels. Of the most rare birds owls, songbirds and the canary finch are worth mentioning.
As for animals, their diversity on the island is as great as the fantasy of Nature. First of all, this applies to local butterflies. Unfortunately, most the fauna of Jersey make up rare species animals. For example, the Red Squirrel has become an almost extinct inhabitant of the island, while the Green Lizard and the Agile Frog can only be seen in Owasna.
In the open sea warm waters the bays of St. Malo support a variety of inhabitants of the deep, like fish. So are mammals. Most often here you can see several varieties of dolphins, whose number within the coast is about 100 individuals. Whales and Atlantic seals have also been sighted in the vicinity of the island. A lot of interesting things from the bright and diverse underwater life will be seen by those who are actively involved in scuba diving. In coastal waters, mainly sea bass and conger are found - the main prey of local fishermen. In addition, Jersey boasts a huge population of reptiles and amphibians.
The flora of Jersey is no less diverse. To date, only flowers on the island, there are several hundred varieties, not to mention trees and shrubs, which are represented by more than 200 species. It seems that the inhabitants of the island have made flowers a cult - they grow everywhere: in gardens, parks, greenhouses. Wildflowers are just as picturesquely scattered throughout Jersey. The most common plants of the island are heather, gorse, marsh St.
The fact that such a small piece of land is inhabited by such great amount representatives of the living world, makes Jersey a unique place of its kind, not only among the British Isles, but throughout the world.
Climate
The more southerly location of Jersey, as well as the protection from the bay of St. Malo, has led to the fact that the island has a temperate, mild climate. Compared to the rest of the British Isles, Jersey has warmer and sunnier weather throughout the year. The average annual temperature on the island is +11.5°С, and in summer the air warms up to +25 - +30°С.
Language
The main language of Jersey is English, although some of the inhabitants of the island, especially older people living in countryside, still speak the so-called "Jerriais" - an insular dialect of French - a mixture of Old Norse and the Norman dialect. Before 1960s official language the island had French, which is still used by lawyers in courts to this day.
Religion
dominant position in religious life Jersey is occupied by the Roman Catholic Church. The island was converted to Christianity in 538 by St. Markulf. Shortly after this, Saint Helier arrived on the island, settled as a hermit in a cave on a secluded rock and accepted in 555 martyrdom from the hands of pirates armed with axes. In memory of him, the capital of Jersey, St. Helier, is named, the coat of arms of which depicts two crossed axes.
Economy
Jersey, like all the Channel Islands, is an offshore zone and has long been recognized as a kind of model of prosperity and stability.
Any Natural resources are not available on the island. Jersey's permanent sources of income are activities as an offshore center (39% of GDP), tourism (35% of GDP), taxes on wealthy foreigners with a residence permit on the island (20% of GDP), as well as Agriculture and small businesses light industry(a total of 6% of GDP). Important role Fishing also plays a role in Jersey's economy.
The main type of tax on the island is income tax. Currently, its size for the inhabitants of the island is 20%. There are no taxes on property, capital gains, gift or inheritance.
Jersey is an international financial center with 73 banks, over 33,000 registered companies and over £100,000,000 of deposit funds, 62% of which are held in foreign currency. Along with the British pound sterling, there is also a local currency in circulation on the island. There is no control over foreign exchange transactions. There is only one type of company in Jersey and there is no distinction between a private firm and joint stock company open type. Due to Jersey's close ties with the UK and the rest of Europe, the island enjoys the benefits of free trade and financial autonomy.
As far back as Napoleon's time, Jersey attracted immigrants seeking to benefit from such favorable conditions. financial activities. However, a fairly densely populated island can afford to accept only the “best of the best” for permanent residence. The candidates of modern immigrants are carefully studied. A residence permit on the island can only be obtained by someone who has liquid assets of at least £8,000,000 and whose stable annual income is at least £500,000. Thus, a maximum of 10 people move to the island every year.
The tourism sector is important for the island, not only because of the rather high profits, but also because of the opportunity to establish permanent connections. Around 1,000,000 tourists visit Jersey every year. The vast majority of them are British (about 80%), about 10% of tourists come from France and Germany, 2% are residents of other Channel Islands, and a very small part of tourists come here from all over the world. About 190 hotels are registered on the island, capable of accommodating more than 14,000 people at the same time.
Agriculture consistently provides about 5% of GDP. The main exports are dairy products, the meat of famous local cows, Jersey Royal potatoes, as well as a huge selection of horticultural crops and flowers.
Jersey has an excellent air transport system. The most frequent flights are to London; there is also regular communication with many European centers including Paris and Amsterdam. Water transport is used to import most goods and materials. Jersey's telecommunications system is based on digital network Great Britain.
Currency
In Jersey, the English pound sterling and its own pound are in circulation, equal to the English pound. There is no currency control on the island.
Main Attractions
Jersey's heritage is great: Neolithic graves, medieval castles, museums with the richest exposition, as well as places reminiscent of the five-year occupation of Jersey during the Second World War. There are a lot of churches on the island, many of them are very interesting, because their history goes back centuries.
Mont-Ogüey Castle and Elizabethan Castle - they are considered the most beautiful fortifications in Europe.
Medieval Grosnez Castle - the castle was built on an elevated promontory in the northwestern part of the island in the 14th century. Today it is only ruins. So observation deck the castle perfectly visible to the rest of the Channel Islands and the vast expanses of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Jersey Museum - The winner of two national awards, the Jersey Museum uses the most modern technologies and impressive displays to introduce visitors to the island's history, traditions, culture and industry.
The Nationally Awarded Maritime Museum offers visitors a new and rather fascinating concept that combines historical exhibitions and a number of paintings and sculptures dedicated to the relationship of the people of Jersey with the sea: waves, sea travel, boat building and much more.
Ceramic Factory - You will be able to follow the entire cycle of making pottery. On the territory of the plant, in addition to the exhibition hall, there is also a museum dedicated to the history of pottery, as well as an artistic painting studio.
La Mare vineyards - in fact, La Mare produces not only excellent wine and the famous Jersey Calvados, which are offered to all guests to taste, but also traditional Jersey black butter, marmalades, jams, jellies, delicious fudge and even mustard. Another pride of the company is chocolate. Traditionally, visitors are offered to get acquainted with the manufacturing processes of all these products.
Jersey Zoo - is one of the best in the world, in a beautiful park square there is a station for growing endangered species of animals.
Lavender Farm - here you can watch the processes of its cultivation, collection, cleaning and drying. Walking through the lavender fields will bring a lot of pleasure. The souvenir shop sells products from the farm.
The Shell Garden is a unique park, the only one in the world where shells are collected. It has over a million copies. The garden has a gift shop selling shells and handmade souvenirs.
Story
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands. famous history for nearly 8,000 years. Norman-style houses, narrow winding streets with French names - all this is a reflection of the fascinating and complex history island, which wove it into the fate of two great nations, England and France, for more than a millennium.
The oldest evidence of human life on the island, such as crude stone tools, dates scientists back to about 250,000 years ago, when hunting tribes used caves on the coast at St. Brelade for shelter. Artifacts from the prehistoric period, when Jersey was still part of the continent, can now be seen at low tide and in St. Owen Bay. The first settled communities appeared here in the Neolithic era, as today the ritual burial places known as dolmens remind.
Although Jersey was part of the vast Roman Empire, little mention was made of Jersey until the 11th century. It is only known that in the 6th century the hermit Helier, who was recognized as a saint, lived on the island. He lived and preached in that part of the island, which is located just south of the castle of Elizabeth, and was possibly killed by Saxon pirates. Six centuries later, a chapel was erected on one of the rocks in honor of the saint.
In the 9th century, the Vikings, also known as the Normans, began to attack the island, which had a huge impact on the life of the island. Throughout the 9th century, they plundered the island in the summer months, until finally the French king Charles the Simple decided to make a deal with them. As a result, in exchange for peace, the leader of the Normans, Rollo, received the lands that later became known as Rouen, the French province of Normandy. Many of the laws and customs of Jersey originated during the Norman period of 933-1204.
The Channel Islands remained politically linked to Brittany until 933, when the Norman duke William Longsworth seized the Cotentin Peninsula in northwestern France and the neighboring islands and annexed them to his dominions. In 1066, Duke William II of Normandy defeated King Harold II at the Battle of Hasting and became the new king of England, continuing to rule the French territories as a separate territory. In 1204 King Philip Augustus of France retook the Duchy of Normandy from King John of England, but the islands remained the property of the British crown. Since that moment, the Channel Islands have become the center of common interests of England and France. At the same time, the British royal fortress and military base of Mont Orgay was built.
During Hundred Years War 1337-1453 Jersey was repeatedly attacked and even occupied for several years in the 1380s. Due to the strategic importance of the island for the English crown, its inhabitants were able to bargain with the king for the most profitable terms for your life. In the years 1455-1485, during the War of the White and Scarlet Roses, Jersey was occupied by the French for seven years (1461-1468), and then, at the insistence of Sir Richard Harliston, was returned to England.
In the 16th century, the inhabitants of the island adopted Protestantism, and life became extremely ascetic. A new fortress was built at that time to protect the bay of Sainte-Aubin. Was organized civil uprising, and each church parish received two cannons, which were usually kept in the walls of temples. One of the cannons can be seen today at the foot of Beaumont Hill. During the same period, knitwear production reached such proportions on the island that Jersey's ability to produce its own food was threatened. As a result, laws were passed strictly regulating who, with whom and when could knit. Another extremely fruitful occupation of the inhabitants of the island was fishing. The boats left Jersey in February-March after a solemn service in the church of St. Brelade and returned back only in September-October.
England was divided in the 1640s civil war, hostilities also spread to Scotland and Ireland. Jersey was also divided by civil strife: the sympathy of one part of its inhabitants was on the side of parliament, and the supporters of George Carteret supported the king. The future King Charles II visited the island twice: first in 1646 and again in 1649 after the execution of his father. The Parliamentarians eventually took over Jersey in 1651, and in gratitude for the help they had received during their exile, Charles II awarded George Carteret a vast landholding in the North American English colonies, which he immediately called New Jersey. By the end of the 17th century, Jersey had developed strong ties with the Americas. Many of its inhabitants immigrated to New England and Northeast Canada, and traders from the island created thriving trading empires in Newfoundland and Gaspe.
The 18th century was a period of political tension between Britain and France, as the growing ambitions of the two major powers clashed across the world. Because of its location, Jersey was constantly under martial law. New attempts to capture the island were made during the American War of Independence. In 1779, the Prince of the German Duchy of Nassau tried to land his troops in St. Owen Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful. In 1781, an army led by Baron de Roullecourt captured St. Helier, but was quickly defeated by British forces led by Major Peirson. A brief peace was followed French revolution and then the Napoleonic Wars, which changed Jersey forever when it ended. A large number of English-speaking soldiers and retired officers stationed on the island, as well as laborers who arrived here in the 1820s, led to the fact that Jersey was gradually saturated with English-speaking culture. At the same time, the island became one of the largest shipbuilding centers in the world. British Isles. More than 900 ships were built here. In the late 19th century, the island's farmers began to capitalize on the cultivation of two luxuries, Jersey cows and Jersey Royal potatoes. And if one of them was the result of careful selection and labor-intensive cultivation, then the other appeared by accident.
The 20th century in the history of Jersey is marked by the occupation of the island by German troops in 1940-1945. As a result, about 8,000 of its inhabitants were evacuated, 1,200 people were sent to camps in Germany, more than 300 people were sentenced to prison and concentration camps in continental Europe. Therefore, Liberation Day - May 9 - is celebrated here from now on as Public Holiday. Finally, the event that had the greatest impact on modern life Jersey, was the intensive development of the island's financial industry in the 1960s.
In 1979, the modern flag of Jersey appeared - a red diagonal cross on a white background with three zloty lions on a red coat of arms topped with a gold crown in the upper triangle. He replaced the old flag, which did not have a coat of arms with a crown.
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If you travel too much, personality distortions inevitably begin. You avoid castles, museums, recognized streets and squares with views that are filled with tourists simply because tourists go to places that are really of value to world culture. Traveling to Arunachal Pradesh seems to be the infamous mainstream. Instead, you begin to feel overvalued places with which healthy person would not contact
For example, I want to get to Canadian Halifax by land, because the Boeing in-flight entertainment system on all flights from SVO to JFK from ground stations shows almost only him and persistently, so on the 20th flight it already seems that this is not just 
. Memorial coordinates, by the way, miss by several hundred meters
Until Halifikas gets his hands on it, you have to be content with Jersey Balewick. Jersey is a British (very inaccurate!) island of 120 sq. km, located 20 km from the coast of French Normandy 
There are only 193 UN member states in the world, but in addition there are more than 50 territories whose status resembles “real” countries: among them are unrecognized states such as Abkhazia or Somaliland; territories administered in accordance with special international treaties, such as Svalbard or; overseas and "crown" territories of former colonial powers - including Jersey and neighboring island(s)
Few, it seems to me, who think / know that the United Kingdom - unitary state. And all these parliaments in Scotland and Wales, by law, have nothing to do with federalism, and football teams play in the European Championship from these “countries” simply by tradition. On the contrary, Jersey, although not sovereign state, since it is a possession british crown, but not part of either the United Kingdom or the European Union, and has had its own legislation for many hundreds of years. I'm interested to see such an ambiguous situation live.
CRIMESTOPPERS
Alas, not only because 50% of the flags here are, nevertheless, British, but also because the inhabitants themselves mistakenly call themselves British (although they distinguish themselves very well from the English / Scots - I specifically talked with them on this topic), independence is here there is no special. But their phone booths, yellow 
Obvious versions are often wrong, but it turns out that the territory that later became the US state of New Jersey was indeed named after the island by Sir George Carteret, at that time the bailiff of Jersey, who received it either for debts from James, Duke of York, or for merit from English king complex fate of Charles II 
Jersey is a large offshore, the entire economy of the country rests on this. However, the previous cash cows - agriculture and tourism - have not been forgotten. At the end of the working day, a mixture of men in expensive suits and sweatpants in a ratio of 1: 1 pours onto the streets of the capital 
The production and consumption of local products is elevated to a cult. Milk, sour cream, lettuce. All own, organic 
The local diet is the same as in neighboring Normandy and Brittany: cider, wine [not mainstream, however], crabs, oysters, lobsters, mussels. There is also an English touch: English food and bad ale are easier to find than we would like. By the way, all the boys and girls from the Russian Far East need to clearly understand that the word used around the world crab is a homonym of the word crab used on Far East in relation to the king crab: these ridiculous creatures of God are so miserable in taste and meatiness in comparison with. 
If Singapore is an island, a city and a state, then Jersey is an island, a country and a village. There is almost nothing on the island except the main city of St. Helier and countryside, almost 100% cut into private houses and farms 
The boundaries between the sections here were formed back in the Middle Ages, so that all roads constantly make unexpected, unmotivated turns, and there are very few roads even in 2 lanes, most often there is only one lane. Between the villages, one-way traffic has been introduced in some places, but not everywhere. Where there is none - in order to pass with an oncoming car, you have to back out almost a whole stage to the nearest intersection. Both the streets in the cities and the roads in the countryside are solidly called Rue and Avenue
Some fields are covered with some kind of perforated greenhouse film, others are full of rabbits. There is no picture of the rabbits because the rabbits misidentify the telephoto as a scoped rifle and run away 
Signed either in French or in English (not and, a or). Mostly in French. different kind monuments, signs and coat of arms of the country are the only places in the country where French still actively used (to the left of the sign - the coat of arms of Parish) 
1 stage = 600 feet, ~26% of a mile 
At elementary school 1901 built separate entrances for boys and girls marked Filles and Garcons 
The airspace over Jersey is so busy that whenever you look up you see 2, 3 or more contrails in the sky 
Trinity
Constructivist old Jersey Airport building, built in 1937. In the USSR at that time, the era of the Stalinist empire was already beginning. There is still a functioning arrivals hall. +1 floor was built from some light structures in the 1970s.
There are almost no English cabs here. 
After the Battle of Jersey - during the American War of Independence, when France opposed England on the side of the colonies, the entire coast of Jersey was lined with towers (on background already another country) 
Where they have survived to this day, they are often surrounded by ordinary urban development. 
Otherwise, Jersey is a story about low tide. The tide is here everywhere you don't point the lens 
Saint Helier
Jersey Island- the southernmost island of the Channel Islands, located in the English Channel. Jersey is not a member of the European Union and has significant sovereignty over the UK. The island has its own Parliament and Assembly of States, its own legal system, your own currency (1 Jersey pound = 1 British pound) and your traditional language jersey.
Jersey Island an ideal place to relax, the mild climate endows the "flower island" with luxurious vegetation and diverse fauna and makes it attractive to tourists and travelers throughout the year. Great walking trails lead along the steep coastline to quaint sheltered coves and picturesque fishing ports where you can admire the seascapes. Along the coast, long fine sandy beaches and hidden coves are ideal for relaxing and sunbathing. St. Helier, the island's main town, is a great place to stroll through the many beautiful shops and Victorian pavilions. Jersey's closeness to France can also be felt in the island's cuisine, with many restaurants and bars serving excellent cuisine and fresh seafood.
MAIN ATTRACTIONS
The heritage of Jersey is great: Neolithic graves, medieval castles, museums with the richest exposition, as well as places reminiscent of the five-year occupation of Jersey during the Second World War. There are a lot of churches on the island, many of them are very interesting, because their history goes back centuries.
Mont-Ogüey Castle and Elizabethan Castle - they are considered the most beautiful fortifications in Europe.
Medieval Grosnez Castle - the castle was built on an elevated promontory in the northwestern part of the island in the 14th century. Today it is only ruins. From the observation deck of the castle, the rest of the Channel Islands and the vast expanses of the Atlantic Ocean are perfectly visible.
The Jersey Museum - The winner of two national awards, the Jersey Museum uses state-of-the-art technology and impressive displays to educate visitors on the island's history, traditions, culture and industry.
The Nationally Awarded Maritime Museum offers visitors a new and rather exciting concept that combines historical exhibitions and a range of paintings and sculptures dedicated to the relationship of the people of Jersey with the sea: waves, sea travel, boat building and much more.
Ceramic Factory - You will be able to follow the entire cycle of making pottery. On the territory of the plant, in addition to the exhibition hall, there is also a museum dedicated to the history of pottery, as well as an artistic painting studio.
La Mare vineyards - in fact, La Mare produces not only excellent wine and the famous Jersey Calvados, which are offered to all guests to taste, but also traditional Jersey black butter, marmalades, jams, jellies, delicious fudge and even mustard. Another pride of the enterprise is chocolate. Traditionally, visitors are offered to get acquainted with the manufacturing processes of all these products.
Jersey Zoo - is one of the best in the world, in a beautiful park square there is a station for growing endangered species of animals.
The Shell Garden is a unique park, the only one in the world where shells are collected. It has over a million copies. The garden has a gift shop selling shells and handmade souvenirs.
