Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Administration
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Roman site 'Les Antiques' of Glanum, with the Mausoleum (left) and the Arch (right)


Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Arles
Canton	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Intercommunality	Vallée des Baux
Mayor	Hervé Chérubini (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	7–392 m (23–1,286 ft) (avg. 60 m/200 ft)
Land area¹	89.09 km² (34.40 sq mi)
Population²	10,662 (2008)
- Density	120 /km² (310 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	13100/ 13210
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Provençal Occitan: Sant Romieg de Provença in classical and Sant Roumié de Prouvènço in Mistralian norms) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

Geography

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is situated about 20 km (12 mi) south of Avignon, just north of the Alpilles mountain range.

Historical population of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856
Population	5055	5055	5737	5181	5464	5007	5930	6077	6124	6340

Year	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901	1906
Population	6348	6315	6030	5999	5815	5815	5636	5976	6009	6148

Year	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975
Population	6174	5938	6369	6598	6723	6877	6893	7582	8044	7923

Year	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	8402	9340	9806	10,662

On the southern outskirts of the city, the ruins of the Roman city of Glanum can still be seen, including a "triumphal arch".

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence was the birthplace of Nostradamus, a 16th century author of prophecies.
Marie Gasquet, a Provençale novelist and queen of the Felibrige, was born in Saint-Remy-de-Provence.
The painter Vincent van Gogh was treated here in the psychiatric center at Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole (1889–1890).
Princess Caroline of Monaco and her children lived in Saint-Rémy for several years following the death of her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi.
In 1952 soaring over the mountains here Charles Atger set the world duration record in a sailplane. He stayed aloft for 56 hours and 15 minutes. Because of concerns over pilot exhaustion, this record category has been discontinued.