Arles-sur-Tech

Arles-sur-Tech
Arles
Commune

Shops in Arles-sur-Tech, with the Tour Saint-Sauveur in the background
Arles-sur-Tech

Coordinates: 42°27′27″N 2°38′04″E / 42.4575°N 2.6344°E / 42.4575; 2.6344Coordinates: 42°27′27″N 2°38′04″E / 42.4575°N 2.6344°E / 42.4575; 2.6344
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement Céret
Canton Le Canigou
Intercommunality Haut Vallespir
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) René Bantoure
Area1 28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi)
Population (2014)2 2,690
 • Density 93/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 66009 /66150
Elevation 226–1,302 m (741–4,272 ft)
(avg. 300 m or 980 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.

Arles-sur-Tech (Catalan: Arles de Tec) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Arles-sur-Tech is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Arles-sur-Tech is situated in the southernmost valley in mainland France before Spain, the Vallespir, through which the 84 km (52 mi) long river "Tech" flows. This small town is surrounded by the eastern Pyrenees which dominate skyline around Arles-sur-Tech. The town sits on the only main road which passes through the valley, the D 115, making it accessible from Spain in the west and the plane of Roussillon and Perpignan in the east. It is located close to the larger and more well-known spa town of Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda.

Map of Arles-sur-Tech and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

Adjacent places of Arles-sur-Tech
Corsavy Montbolo
Montferrer Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda
    
Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor Term start Term end
Jean-Baptiste Serradell 1807 1808
Abdon Desclaus 1808 1813
Jean-Baptiste Serradell[1] 1813 1815
Jean Galangau 1815 1827
Dominique Jofre 1827 1830
Jean Pujade 1830 1832
Etienne Grau 1832 1835
Pierre Mouchart 1835 1837
Jacques Dubois 1837 1839
Jean Serreclare 1839 1840
François Comaills 1840 1848
Etienne Douffiagues 1848 1849
Joseph Boix 1849 1850
Joseph Pallarès 1892 1908
Jean Vilar 1908 1914
Baptiste Pams 1914 1941
Lucien Trenet (father of Charles Trenet) 1941 1942
Pierre Sola 1942 1944
Baptiste Pams 1944 1967
Paul Lavanga 1967 1983
Marcel Charlet 1983 1989
Albert Costa 1989 2001
René Ala 2001 2008
René Bantoure 2008

International relations

Arles-sur-Tech is twinned with:

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19622,604—    
19682,760+6.0%
19752,945+6.7%
19822,889−1.9%
19902,837−1.8%
19992,700−4.8%
20062,767+2.5%
20092,757−0.4%

Sites of interest

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ↑ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Arles, le 11 juin 1815, 14 january 2014
  2. ↑ (in Catalan) Infos on Cubelles municipal website Archived September 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Joan Evans, Cluniac Art of The Romanesque Period (Cambridge University Press, 1950). Citing L'abbé Joseph Gibrat, Aperçu historique sur l'abbaye d'Arles-sur-Tech, page 15 (Céret, L. Roque, 1922. In-8°, 93 p.).
  4. ↑ Milburg Francisco Mansfield, Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque provinces: including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (I. Pitman, 1908).
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