Lézignan-Corbières

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Lézignan-Corbières
Commune
The church in Lézignan-Corbières
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 43°12′05″N 2°45′30″E / 43.2014°N 02.7584°E / 43.2014; 02.7584Coordinates: 43°12′05″N 2°45′30″E / 43.2014°N 02.7584°E / 43.2014; 02.7584
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Narbonne
Canton	Le Lézignanais
Intercommunality	Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gérard Forcada
Area 1	37.68 km2 (14.55 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	11,248
• Density	300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11203 /11200
Elevation	19–187 m (62–614 ft) (avg. 51 m or 167 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lézignan-Corbières (French pronunciation: [leziɲɑ̃ kɔʁbjɛʁ] (listen); Occitan: Lesinhan de las Corbièras) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Situated in the Corbières wine region not far from Narbonne, it has a Vine and Wine Museum (Musée de la Vigne et du Vin).

Geography[]

The river Orbieu flows northeast through the southeastern part of the commune and forms part of its eastern border.

Population[]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 1,379 —     1800 1,505 +9.1% 1806 1,668 +10.8% 1821 1,669 +0.1% 1831 1,792 +7.4% 1836 2,269 +26.6% 1841 2,168 −4.5% 1846 2,442 +12.6% 1851 2,537 +3.9% 1856 2,754 +8.6% 1861 3,016 +9.5% 1866 3,934 +30.4% 1872 3,969 +0.9% 1876 4,670 +17.7% 1881 6,286 +34.6% 1886 6,569 +4.5% 1891 4,792 −27.1% 1896 4,857 +1.4%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 4,951 +1.9% 1906 6,339 +28.0% 1911 6,787 +7.1% 1921 7,039 +3.7% 1926 7,152 +1.6% 1931 7,227 +1.0% 1936 7,248 +0.3% 1946 6,986 −3.6% 1954 6,682 −4.4% 1962 6,939 +3.8% 1968 7,558 +8.9% 1975 7,355 −2.7% 1982 7,514 +2.2% 1990 7,881 +4.9% 1999 8,266 +4.9% 2008 9,968 +20.6% 2018 11,248 +12.8%

Sport[]

Football Club de Lézignan (also known as Lézignan Sangliers - the Wild Boars) are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Lézignan-Corbières. They became French Champions for the first time in 30 years at the end of the 2007-2008 national competition.

Lezignan 9s is a rugby league nines tournament.

A FlyZone Indoor Skydiving Windtunnel has opened in November 2011 http://www.flyzone.fr/

Education[]

Schools include:^[2]

Public preschools (école maternelle):

• Ecole Maternelle Alphonse Daudet
• Ecole Escouto Can Plaou
• Ecole Maternelle Françoise Dolto

Public primary schools (école primaire):

• Ecole Frédéric Mistral (from CP to CE1)
• Ecole Marie-Curie (from CE2 to CM2)

Public junior high schools (collège):

• Collège Joseph Anglade
• Collège Rosa Parks

There is one public senior high school/sixth form college, .

Private schools:

• (collège-lycée)
• Ecole Privée Sainte Thérèse (maternelle-primaire)

See also[]

• Corbières AOC
• Communes of the Aude department

References[]

External links[]

• Lézignan-Corbières

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