Arudy
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
Arrondissement | Oloron-Sainte-Marie | |
Canton | Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2 | |
Community association | Vallée d'Ossau | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 6 ′ N , 0 ° 26 ′ W | |
height | 310-1,446 m | |
surface | 28.23 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,229 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 79 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 64260 | |
INSEE code | 64062 | |
Website | http://www.arudy-mairie.fr/ | |
Arudy Town Hall |
Arudy ( Occitan : Arudi ) is a French municipality with 2229 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The place belongs to the canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2 (until 2015: canton of Arudy ) in the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie . The inhabitants are called Arudyen (ne) s .
geography
Arudy is located about 21 kilometers south-southwest of Pau in the Pyrenees National Park in the Vallée d'Ossau on the Gave d'Ossau . Arudy is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Buzy and Bescat in the north, Sévignacq-Meyracq in the northeast, Sainte-Colome in the east, Louvie-Juzon in the southeast, Izeste and Bilhères in the south, Escot in the southwest, Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the west and northwest as well Buziet in the northwest.
The former route nationale 618 runs through the municipality .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 2,444 | 2,874 | 2,892 | 2,705 | 2,537 | 2.234 | 2,246 | 2,185 |
Attractions
- Saint-Germain church from the 12th century, renovated in the 19th century
- Saint-Michel chapel
- Hotel Pouts , part of the former abbey from the 17th century, after renovation since 1971, museum, monument historique since 1992
- various houses from the 16th and 17th centuries
Personalities
- Jean-Lucq d'Arriule (1774–1850), Lieutenant General of the Infantry
- Édouard Piette (1827–1906), archaeologist (prehistoric)
- Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq (1884–1928), racing cyclist