Argelès-sur-Mer
Argelès-sur-Mer | |
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The beach at Argelès-sur-Mer | |
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Argelès-sur-Mer | |
Coordinates: 42°32′42″N 3°01′25″E / 42.5449°N 3.0235°ECoordinates: 42°32′42″N 3°01′25″E / 42.5449°N 3.0235°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitanie |
Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Arrondissement | Céret |
Canton | La Côte Vermeille |
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Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Antoine Parra |
Area 1 | 58.67 km2 (22.65 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2018)[1] | 10,366 |
• Density | 180/km2 (460/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 66008 /66700 |
Elevation | 0–1,099 m (0–3,606 ft) (avg. 16 m or 52 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Argelès-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [aʁʒəlɛs syʁ mɛʁ] (listen), literally Argelès on Sea; Catalan: Argelers de la Marenda or Argelers [əɾʒəˈles]; Occitan: Argelers de Mar), commonly known as Argelès, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the administrative region of Occitania, France.
It is about 25 km from Perpignan.
Geography[]
Argelès-sur-Mer is located in the canton of La Côte Vermeille and in the arrondissement of Céret.
Argelès-sur-Mer is on the Côte Vermeille at the foot of the Albères mountain range, close to the Spanish border. It has the longest beach in the Pyrenées Orientales.
History[]
During World War II, Argelès-sur-Mer was the location of a concentration camp, where up to 100,000 defeated Spanish Republicans were interned next to a windy beach in abysmal sanitary conditions by the French government after the defeat of the Spanish Republic. The refugees streamed to the camp from the winter of 1938/39 after the collapse of the Catalan front following the rebel offensive.[2]
Government and politics[]
Mayors[]
Mayor[3] · [4] | Term start | Term end |
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Assiscle Bech | 1790 | 1791 |
Jean Grando | 1791 | 1793 |
Joseph Arman | 1793 | 1794 |
Jean Matignon | 1794 | 1794 |
Damien Padallé | 1794 | 1796 |
Bonaventure Verges | 1796 | 1796 |
François-Xavier Boluix | 1796 | 1798 |
Joseph Arman | 1798 | 1799 |
François-Xavier Boluix | 1799 | 1800 |
Marc Surjus | 1800 | 1813 |
Côme Ferran | 1813 | June 1815 |
Paul Pujas[5] | June 1815 | ? 1815 |
Jean Azéma | 1815 | 1816 |
Isidore Ferrer | 1816 | 1821 |
Bonaventure Verges | 1821 | 1821 |
Pierre Padallé | 1821 | 1827 |
Bonaventure Julia | 1827 | 1829 |
Joseph Arman | 1829 | 1830 |
Pierre Padallé | 1830 | 1831 |
Joseph Arman | 1831 | 1837 |
Jean Germain Pujol | 1837 | 1840 |
Alphonse Sebe | 1840 | 1848 |
François Sine | 1848 | 1848 |
Assiscle Padallé Bocamy | 1848 | 1848 |
François Padallé Siné | 1848 | 1848 |
Thomas Bech | 1848 | 1852 |
Joseph Azema | 1852 | 1855 |
Germain Barbie | 1855 | 1865 |
Côme Ferran Comes | 1865 | 1870 |
Joseph Baylet | 1870 | 1870 |
Étienne Pujol | 1870 | 1874 |
Jacques Lanquine | 1874 | 1876 |
Étienne Pujol | 1876 | 1877 |
Michel Moret | 1877 | 1878 |
Étienne Pujol | 1878 | 1890 |
Jean Padallé Bocamy | 1890 | 1892 |
Marc Surjus-Coste | 1892 | 1893 |
Pierre Moreto | 1893 | 1902 |
Marc Surjus-Coste | 1902 | 1908 |
Louis Courtais | 1908 | 1912 |
Côme Anglade | 1912 | 1914 |
Vincent Rouzaud | 1914 | 1915 |
Dieudonné Vinyes | 1915 | 1918 |
Côme Anglade | 1918 | 1919 |
Louis Courtais | 1919 | 1922 |
Frédéric Trescases | 1944 | 1945 |
Joseph Farre | 1945 | 1947 |
Germain Farre | 1947 | 1947 |
Frédéric Trescases | 1947 | 1953 |
Gaston Pams | 1953 | 1981 |
Isidore Fourriques | 1981 | 1983 |
Jean Carrère | 1983 | 2001 |
Pierre Aylagas | 2001 | 2016 |
Antoine Parra | 2016 |
Population and society[]
Demography[]
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Education[]
Sports[]
Étoile sportive catalane is the rugby union club of Argelès-sur-Mer.
Culture[]
Sites of interest[]
- Buildings
- Dolmen of the Collets de Cotlliure (Monument historique)
- Dolmen of the Cova de l'Alarb (Monument historique)
- Dolmen of Sant Pere dels Forquets
- Chapel of Saint-Jérôme d'Argelès, from the 10th century
- Church of Saint-Ferréol de la Pava (Monument historique), from the 10th century
- Parish church of Notre-Dame del Prat, from the 14th to the 20th centuries (Monument historique)
- Church of Sainte-Marie de Torreneules, from the 8th to the 10th centuries
- Abbey of Valbonne, from the 13th to the 14th centuries
- Church of Saint-Laurent-du-Mont, from the 12th century (Monument historique)
- Church of Saint-Martin-et-Sainte-Croix, from the 11th or 12th century, and the old village of Taxo d'Avall (both Monument historique)
- Church of Saint-Pierre dels Forquets, pre-romanesque ruins
- Castle of Pujols, from the 13th century (Monument historique)
- Massane tower, in the Albera Massif, from the 13th century
- Castle of Valmy, from the 19th century
- Casa de l'Albera, museum about the Albera Massif
- Natural sites
- National nature reserve of the Mas Larrieu
- National nature reserve of the Massane forest
- The Bois des pins is the historical pine forest located near the beach front. Created in the 1860s by the General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales, it still has to this day over 8,000 centenarian pines.[6]
Notable people[]
- Marcelle Narbonne (1898-2012) : supercentenarian who lived and died in Argelès-sur-Mer.
- David Ensor (1906-1987) : British lawyer, actor, author and Labour Party politician, lived and died in Argelès-sur-Mer.
- Marc Lièvremont (1968-) : former rugby union footballer raised in Argelès-sur-Mer and former member of the Étoile sportive catalane club.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ Corazón Helado de 1939 - Los exilios republicanos Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ bislyjp.cpm, Marc Surjus : premier grand maire d'Argelès, mayors from 1790 to 1813.
- ^ Incomplete list of mayors on MairesGenWeb
- ^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Argelès, 11 juin 1815, 12 January 2014
- ^ Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
External links[]
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- Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales
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