Arles-sur-Tech | |
Native Name: | Arles |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Céret |
Canton: | Le Canigou |
Insee: | 66009 |
Postal Code: | 66150 |
Mayor: | David Planas[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC du Haut Vallespir |
Coordinates: | 42.4575°N 2.6344°W |
Elevation M: | 300 |
Elevation Min M: | 226 |
Elevation Max M: | 1302 |
Area Km2: | 28.82 |
Arles-sur-Tech (in French pronounced as /aʁl syʁ tɛk/, literally Arles on Tech; Catalan; Valencian: Arles de Tec) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.[2]
Arles-sur-Tech is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret.[2]
Arles-sur-Tech is situated in the southernmost valley in mainland France before Spain, the Vallespir, through which the 84km (52miles) long river "Tech" flows. This small town is surrounded by the eastern Pyrenees which dominate the 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.
At the end of the Spanish Civil War Arles-sur-Tech was the site of a camp housing Republican escapees from Spain. It was used as an initial sorting camp.[3]
Mayor | Term start | Term end | |
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Jean-Baptiste Serradell | 1807 | 1808 | |
Abdon Desclaus | 1808 | 1813 | |
Jean-Baptiste Serradell[4] | 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 | 2020 | |
David Planas | 2020 | incumbent |
Arles-sur-Tech is twinned with: