Canet-en-Roussillon

Canet-en-Roussillon
The sea front and the beach at Canet-en-Roussillon
Coat of arms
Canet-en-Roussillon
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region  Canet-en-Roussillon
Coordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°ECoordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	Canet-en-Roussillon
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Bernard Dupont
Area^1	30.22 km^2 (11.67 sq mi)
Population (2013)^2	12,436
• Density	410/km^2 (1,100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	66037 / 66140
Elevation	0–37 m (0–121 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 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.

Canet-en-Roussillon (Catalan: Canet de Rosselló) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Canet-en-Roussillon is located in the canton of Canet-en-Roussillon and in the arrondissement of Perpignan,9.4 km (5.8 mi) to the east of Perpignan.

Map of Canet-en-Roussillon and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

Villelongue-de-la-Salanque	Sainte-Marie
Perpignan, Cabestany		Mediterranean Sea
Saint-Nazaire, Alénya	Saint-Cyprien

History

The city walls are destroyed in the 19th century.

With the development of sea bathing, the first beach settlement for bathers of the coast of Pyrénées-Orientales is created by Louise Lombard in 1849.^[1] As soon as 1854 are established municipal laws to rule types of bathing suits and separated zones of sea bathing for men and women.^[2]

Government and politics

Mayors

Signature of mayor Basile Darbon in 1910.

Mayor	Term start	Term end		Party
Henri Castany	1892	1904
Basile Darbon	1904	May 1912
Isidore Boutet[3]	May 1912	1918
François Alies[4]	1918	1919
Joseph Lafon	1920	1925
Jacques Xamma	1925	1930
Joseph Lafon	1929	1930
Gabriel Henric	1930	1941
Désiré Riu	1941	1943
Pierre Fourcade	1943	1944
Gabriel Henric	1944	1947
Joseph Pagès	1947	1950
François Moudat	1950	1965
Christian Brignieu	1965	1966
François Moudat	1966	1971
Jacques Coupet	1971	1989
Arlette Franco	1989	2010		UMP
Bernard Dupont	2010			UMP

International relations

Canet-en-Roussillon is twinned with:

• Maynooth, Ireland

Population

Population 1962-2008

Sites of interest

• The medieval castle ;
• The Saint-James church ;
• The Château de l'Esparrou, a 19th c. manor ;
• The old village ;
• The sea front.

Notable people

• Arlette Franco (1939-2010), mayor of Canet-en-Roussillon, deputy to the National Assembly of France and vice-president of the French Swimming Federation.
• Marc Fontan (1956-), motorcycle road racer born in Canet-en-Roussillon.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. Birkui, Françoise (2013). Le Matrimoine catalan : 66 femmes [Catalan matrimony : 66 women] (in French). Canet-en-Roussillon: Trabucaïre. ISBN 978-2-84974-166-5.
2. Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
3. Cardenas, Fabricio (29 August 2014). "Nomination du maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
4. Cardenas, Fabricio (24 March 2015). "Nomination de l'adjoint au maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.