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Lézignan-Corbières

Coordinates: 43°12′05″N 2°45′30″E / 43.2014°N 02.7584°E / 43.2014; 02.7584
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Lézignan-Corbières
The church in Lézignan-Corbières
The church in Lézignan-Corbières
Coat of arms of Lézignan-Corbières
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Lézignan-Corbières is located in France
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Lézignan-Corbières is located in Occitanie
Lézignan-Corbières
Lézignan-Corbières
Coordinates: 43°12′05″N 2°45′30″E / 43.2014°N 02.7584°E / 43.2014; 02.7584
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentAude
ArrondissementNarbonne
CantonLe Lézignanais
IntercommunalityRégion Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Gérard Forcada[1]
Area
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37.68 km2 (14.55 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
10,952
 • Density290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
11203 /11200
Elevation19–187 m (62–614 ft)
(avg. 51 m or 167 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lézignan-Corbières (French pronunciation: [leziɲɑ̃ kɔʁbjɛʁ] ; Occitan: Lesinhan de las Corbièras) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Situated in the Corbières wine region not far from Narbonne, it has a Vine and Wine Museum (Musée de la Vigne et du Vin).

Geography

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The river Orbieu flows northeast through the southeastern part of the commune and forms part of its eastern border. Lézignan-Corbières station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne.

Population

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,379—    
1800 1,505+1.26%
1806 1,668+1.73%
1821 1,669+0.00%
1831 1,792+0.71%
1836 2,269+4.83%
1841 2,168−0.91%
1846 2,442+2.41%
1851 2,537+0.77%
1856 2,754+1.65%
1861 3,016+1.83%
1866 3,934+5.46%
1872 3,969+0.15%
1876 4,670+4.15%
1881 6,286+6.12%
1886 6,569+0.88%
1891 4,792−6.11%
1896 4,857+0.27%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 4,951+0.38%
1906 6,339+5.07%
1911 6,787+1.38%
1921 7,039+0.37%
1926 7,152+0.32%
1931 7,227+0.21%
1936 7,248+0.06%
1946 6,986−0.37%
1954 6,682−0.55%
1962 6,939+0.47%
1968 7,558+1.43%
1975 7,355−0.39%
1982 7,514+0.31%
1990 7,881+0.60%
1999 8,266+0.53%
2007 9,712+2.04%
2012 10,883+2.30%
2017 11,168+0.52%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Sport

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Football Club de Lézignan (also known as Lézignan Sangliers - the Wild Boars) are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Lézignan-Corbières. They became French Champions for the first time in 30 years at the end of the 2007-2008 national competition.

Lezignan 9s is a rugby league nines tournament.

A FlyZone Indoor Skydiving Windtunnel has opened in November 2011 http://www.flyzone.fr/

Education

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Schools include:[5]

Public preschools (école maternelle):

  • Ecole Maternelle Alphonse Daudet
  • Ecole Escouto Can Plaou
  • Ecole Maternelle Françoise Dolto

Public primary schools (école primaire):

  • Ecole Frédéric Mistral (from CP to CE1)
  • Ecole Marie-Curie (from CE2 to CM2)

Public junior high schools (collège):

There is one public senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Ernest Ferroul.

Private schools:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Lézignan-Corbières, EHESS (in French).
  4. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  5. ^ "Écoles-Collèges-Lycées-C.F.A.." Lézignan-Corbières. Retrieved on September 16, 2017.
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