Ille-sur-Têt

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Ille-sur-Têt
Commune
The town hall in Ille-sur-Têt
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 42°40′18″N 2°37′17″E / 42.6717°N 2.6214°E / 42.6717; 2.6214Coordinates: 42°40′18″N 2°37′17″E / 42.6717°N 2.6214°E / 42.6717; 2.6214
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	La Vallée de la Têt
Intercommunality	Roussillon Conflent
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	William Burghoffer
Area 1	31.67 km2 (12.23 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	5,436
• Density	170/km2 (440/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66088 /66130
Elevation	110–446 m (361–1,463 ft) (avg. 160 m or 520 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ille-sur-Têt (French pronunciation: [ij syʁ tɛt] (listen); Catalan: Illa or Illa de Tet) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southern France.

Its inhabitants are called Illois.

Geography[]

The commune is situated in the region along the route nationale 116 and is crossed by the Têt River (in the north), as well as by its tributary, the (in the south). It is one of the gateways to the Fenouillèdes region (towards Montalba-le-Château or Bélesta).

Ille-sur-Têt is located in the canton of La Vallée de la Têt and in the arrondissement of Prades.

Map of Ille-sur-Têt and its surrounding communes

Population[]

Sites of interest[]

• Saint-Étienne Church
• Hospice d'Ille-sur-Tet (Hospici d'Illa in Catalan)
• The geological site of the

Notable people[]

• (1799-1852), industrialist, born in Ille-sur-Têt.
• Charles Dupuy (1851-1923), died in Ille-sur-Têt in 1923, President of the Council of Ministers under Presidents Sadi Carnot, Jean Casimir-Perier, Félix Faure and Émile Loubet.
• (1886-1962), poet, born and dead in Ille-sur-Têt.
• (1887-1955), civil engineer (mines), Second World War résistant. Arrested but released as a veteran, the Vichy regime sent him to Ille-sur-Têt as a tax inspector but he remained under police surveillance. He fled to Switzerland where in 1944 he was made Consul Général de France, a post he held until 1953.
• (1891-1967), died in Ille-sur-Têt, linguist.
• Jean Galia (1905-1949), born in Ille-sur-Têt, rugby union and rugby league player.
• (1915–1992), born in Ille-sur-Têt, writer, songwriter for Gilbert Bécaud and Édith Piaf among others.
• Paul Blanc (1937-), former Senator for Pyrénées-Orientales and mayor of Sournia, born in Ille-sur-Têt.
• Paul Loridant (1948-), born in Ille-sur-Têt, Senator for Essonne .

In fiction[]

Prosper Mérimée's short story La Vénus d'Ille takes place in Ille-sur-Têt.

See also[]

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References[]

• INSEE commune file

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ille-sur-Têt.

• Official site of the town

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