Montdardier

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View of the village of Montdardier
Montdardier
Montdardier and the Tude forest
Montdardier
Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°E / 43.9283; 3.5925Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°E / 43.9283; 3.5925
Country France
Region Languedoc-Roussillon
Department Gard
Arrondissement Le Vigan
Canton Le Vigan
Intercommunality Pays viganais
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Daniel Carrière
Area
 • Land1 35.25 km2 (13.61 sq mi)
Population (2008)
 • Population2 193
 • Population2 Density 5.5/km2 (14/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 30176 / 30120
Elevation 259–889 m (850–2,917 ft)

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.

Montdardier is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Population

Historical population of Montdardier
Year1793180018061821183118361841184618511856
Population466432601714698715727700738677
Year1861186618721876188118861891189619011906
Population6726165775695785817438859181051
Year1911192119261931193619461954196219681975
Population870558466424340324316273215197
Year1982199019992008
Population178157187193

Sights

  • The castle in neo-gothic style
  • La Tude massif
  • The church

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.[1]

Montdardier's castle

See also

References

  1. ↑ Class I, Report on Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations, and Mineral Products, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition was Divided, Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Clowes, London, 1852; page 28.
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