Need to develop a Website (Information Portal)

Hi , this website is a town information portal , just contains A-Z information about the town (atleast almost) , simmilar to yellow pages but thats just a part, main theme is to tell about the town , i dont have any sample websites but its main pupose is to work as info portal ; we are preferring custom python at this point , if not possible may be we can go for DJANGO (Python cms) backend in Mysql , hosting on a linux server, we need a good website to get started and we might expand it in future depending on our time and interest , our aim is simple pushing as much info as we can; we presently dont want/need any addons such as google addsense etc, just need a plain and neat info portal , will try avoinding flash if possible ; thats the info i got , please feel free to ask anything you want to know further ;