Boeil-Bezing

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Boeil-Bezing
Boeil-Bezing (France)
Boeil-Bezing
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Pau
Canton Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin
Community association Pays de Nay
Coordinates 43 ° 13 ′  N , 0 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 13 ′  N , 0 ° 16 ′  W
height 218-412 m
surface 8.5 km 2
Residents 1,287 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 151 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 64510
INSEE code
Website http://www.boeil-bezing.fr/

Boeil-Bezing is a French commune with 1,287 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Pau and the canton of Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin (until 2015: canton of Nay-Est ). The inhabitants are called Belvézinois .

geography

Boeil-Bezing is located about eleven kilometers southeast of Pau on the Gave de Pau river , which borders the municipality in the southwest, and on the Lagoin . Boeil-Bezing is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bordes in the north and north-west, Angaïs in the north, Nousty , Soumoulou and Gomer in the north-east, Beuste in the east, Baudreix in the south, Arros-de-Nay in the south-west, Saint-Abit in the west and south-west as well Pardies-Piétat in the west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
Residents 773 791 930 1.009 962 935 1,147 1,246
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Vincent-Diacre Church, largely built in 1871
  • Protestant Church, former Saint-Girons Catholic Church from the 16th century

Personalities

  • Carl Einstein (1885–1940), anarchist, writer and art historian, buried in Boeil-Bezing
  • Jérémy Chardy (* 1987), tennis player, grew up in Boeil-Bezing

Web links

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