Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via | |
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![]() Church of St. Martin in Odeillo | |
Coordinates: 42°29′54″N 2°02′05″E / 42.4983°N 2.0347°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitania |
Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Arrondissement | Prades |
Canton | Les Pyrénées catalanes |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Alain Luneau[1] |
Area 1 | 29.60 km2 (11.43 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 1,780 |
• Density | 60/km2 (160/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 66124 /66120 |
Elevation | 1,312–2,212 m (4,304–7,257 ft) (avg. 1,800 m or 5,900 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃ ʁɔmø ɔdɛjo vja] ; Catalan: Font-romeu, Odelló i Vià), or simply Odeillo, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Cerdagne near the Spanish border in the south of France.[3] It comprises the villages of Odeillo and Via, as well as Font-Romeu, one of the oldest ski resorts in France and the oldest in the Pyrenees.
Geography
[edit]Localization
[edit]Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. It is bordered by the communes of Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes, Targasonne, Égat, Estavar, Saillagouse, Eyne and Bolquère.
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Transportation
[edit]Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via station is served by the Yellow Train line, a railway which runs from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol.
Toponymy
[edit]The names of Odeillo and Via appear in 839 as parrochia Hodellone et parrochia Avizano.[4]
The name Font-Romeu means in Catalan "fountain of the pilgrim".[4]
History
[edit]Odeillo and Via were both mentioned for the first time in 839 among the places paying a fee to La Seu d'Urgell church. Nevertheless, Odeillo was at the time part of the County of Cerdanya, while Via was a property of the Urg family.[4]
On 15 July 1035, Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya, gave Odeillo to the Abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, where he retired himself a short time before his death. The Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa also owned a few allods in Odeillo, as recognized by a papal bull from Sergius IV in 1011.[4]
Via remained a property of the Urg family until the 13th century. It was then bought by Peter of Fenouillet, viscount of Fenouillet and then viscount of Ille.[4]
A chapel was mentioned for the first time in Font-Romeu in 1525, on the territory of Odeillo. It already hosted a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 13th century, and a hermitage was built from 1693 to receive the pilgrims.[4]
Odeillo and Via both became communes in 1790. The commune of Via was abolished and included into Odeillo on 10 July 1822.[5]
In 1881, a wildfire caused by arson spread throughout 267 hectares of the forest of La Calme in the north of the commune.[6]
Demography
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Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 1,857 | — |
1975 | 2,098 | +1.76% |
1982 | 2,150 | +0.35% |
1990 | 1,857 | −1.81% |
1999 | 2,003 | +0.84% |
2007 | 1,992 | −0.07% |
2012 | 1,843 | −1.54% |
2017 | 1,928 | +0.91% |
Source: INSEE[7] |
Solar power
[edit]- The world's largest solar furnace in Odeillo can reach temperatures of 3,500 °C (6,330 °F).
- THEMIS Solar Power R&D center is 3 km (1.9 mi) away in the village of Targasonne
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ a b c d e f (in French) Jean Sagnes (dir.), Le pays catalan, t. 2, Pau, Société nouvelle d'éditions régionales, 1985
- ^ Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France: dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986
- ^ Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Incendies de forêts en 1881, 13 February 2014
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
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