Bruges

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Bruges
Bruges coat of arms
Bruges (France)
Bruges
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Gironde
Arrondissement Bordeaux
Canton Le Bouscat
Community association Bordeaux metropolis
Coordinates 44 ° 53 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 53 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W
height 1-31 m
surface 14.22 km 2
Residents 17,924 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,260 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 33520
INSEE code 33075
Website http://www.mairie-bruges.fr/

Town Hall ( Mairie )

Bruges is a French city with 17,924 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The city is located in the Arrondissement of Bordeaux and there in the canton of Le Bouscat .

geography

Bruges is about five kilometers north of Bordeaux . The community is served by the TBC bus lines. A tram-train service is to be introduced on the Ligne du Médoc SNCF line , which runs from Bordeaux to Le Verdon-sur-Mer , and the Bordeaux tram network is to be expanded. Line C is to branch off from Ravezies station in Bordeaux and run via Bruges on a 7.2 km long route to Blanquefort station . This would enable a direct connection without changing trains from the city center in Bordeaux.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 5349 6612 7610 7686 8753 10,610 12,955 18,037
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Town twinning

Since 1989 there has been a partnership between Bruges and the German municipality of Umkirch in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg .

A partnership with the Spanish municipality of Polanco in Cantabria has existed since 2005 .

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Bruges

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 377-382.

Web links

Commons : Bruges (Gironde)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files