Bourg-Madame
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Bourg-Madame La Guingueta d'Ix |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Prades | |
| Canton | Les Pyrénées Catalanes | |
| Community association | Pyrénées Cerdagne | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 26 ' N , 1 ° 57' E | |
| height | 1,130-1,235 m | |
| surface | 7.85 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,224 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 156 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 66670 | |
| INSEE code | 66025 | |
 The Romanesque church of Saint-Martin d'Hix |
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Bourg-Madame ( La Guingueta d'Ix in Catalan ) is a municipality with 1224 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the south of France , in the Pyrénées-Orientales department and thus in the Occitania region . The municipality is part of the Pyrénées Catalanes Regional Natural Park .
The inhabitants are called Guinguettois in French , because the city was also called Les Guinguettes d'Hix in the past .
geography
Bourg-Madame is located at 1150 meters in the wide high valley of the Cerdagne , where the national road N20 meets the Segre river , and right on the border with Spain .
history
A pre-Romanesque church (l'église d'Hix) is mentioned here as early as 839. In 1177 the Count of Barcelona and the Cerdanya had a fortress built to protect the area administratively, commercially and militarily.
In the Pyrenees Treaty of 1659, the eastern part of the Cerdanya fell to France and the previously so-called municipality of Hix became a border town. It was not until 1815 that Hix was renamed Bourg-Madame in honor of the wife of the Count of Angoulême , Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France ("Madame Royale"). She was the daughter of King Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinettes .
Attractions
- L'église d'Hix - The church was mentioned as early as the 9th century; the Romanesque church building dates from the 12th century.
- L'église de Caldégas - The Romanesque church was built shortly after the year 1000 and was restored in the 11th century.
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