Saint-Faust | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Pau |
Canton: | Billère et Coteaux de Jurançon |
Insee: | 64478 |
Postal Code: | 64110 |
Mayor: | Patrick Rousselet[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Pau Béarn Pyrénées |
Coordinates: | 43.269°N -0.45°W |
Elevation M: | 186 |
Elevation Min M: | 170 |
Elevation Max M: | 386 |
Area Km2: | 13.51 |
Saint-Faust (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ fost/; Occitan (post 1500);: Sent Haust) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.[2]
French historian Paul Raymond wrote that in 1385, Saint-Faust and its annex Laroin had 89 fires and depended on the bailiwick of Pau.
Monhauba is an old hamlet of Saint-Faust, destroyed in 1778 when the Gave de Pau river flooded.[3]
The town is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) areas of Jurançon and Béarn for wine and that of Ossau-Iraty for cheese.