Correns Explained

Correns
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Correns.svg
Arrondissement:Brignoles
Canton:Brignoles
Insee:83045
Postal Code:83570
Mayor:Nicole Rullan[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CA Provence Verte
Coordinates:43.4883°N 6.0803°W
Elevation M:152
Elevation Min M:139
Elevation Max M:561
Area Km2:37.06

Correns (in French pronounced as /kɔʁɑ̃s/; Occitan (post 1500);: Correnç) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Its name in the Provençal language is Courrens. The geographic position of the village is almost in the middle of the linking "autoroute" A8 from Aix-en-Provence to Cannes, only about 10 kilometers in the north.

It is at the entry of two gorges: Vallon Sourn and the Bagarède. The village is on the banks of the Argens River. Correns bills itself as (the) "Premier Village Bio de France". Bio(logique) is the French term for organic, so this means "France's first organic village" where all food and grapes produced are organic. Its main product is wine.

Popular culture

From January to July 1979, English progressive rock group Pink Floyd recorded part of their double studio album The Wall at Studio Miraval located in Correns.

On August 23, 2014, actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wed in Correns at Château Miraval in a private, nondenominational wedding.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. News: Rivera. Zayda. Hutchinson. Bill. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt get married in France. 23 February 2015. NY Daily News. 28 August 2014.