Sorède

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Commune of Sorède
Location
Longitude	02°57'27" E
Latitude	42°31'53" N
Administration
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Céret
Canton	Argelès-sur-Mer
Intercommunality	Communauté des Communes des Albères
Mayor	Yves Porteix (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	42 m–1,241 m (avg. 80 m)
Land area¹	34.54 km²
Population² (1999)	2,699
- Density (1999)	78/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	66196/ 66690
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Sorède (catalan: Sureda) is a french commune in the departement of Pyrenées-Orientales.

Contents 1 Administration 2 Population 3 Sights and Monuments 4 Notable people who lived in Sorède

[edit] Administration

List of mayors

Period	Identity	Parti	Quality
march 2001	Yves Porteix	UDF
Other names are not yet known.

[edit] Population

1962= 1 138 1968= 1 164 1975= 1 491 1982= 1 896 1990= 2 160 1999= 2 699

[edit] Sights and Monuments

• The main church "St Assiscle et Ste Victoire", 14th century choir , 17th century baroque sculptures.
• Notre-Dame du Château, an 18th century sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the mountains, and the ruins of the castle of Ultrera, dating from the early middle ages.
• Saint Martin de Lavail, a 9th century romanesc chapel.

[edit] Notable people who lived in Sorède

• Father Antonio Gomes, known as « Padre Himalaya », a portugese scientist and priest who experimented one of the first solar ovens in Sorède in 1900.