Boeil-Bezing
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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 | |
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 | 64133 | |
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