Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes
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Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes Caudièrs de Fenolhet |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Prades | |
| Canton | La Vallée de l'Agly | |
| Community association | Agly Fenouillèdes | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 49 ' N , 2 ° 23' E | |
| height | 279-1,000 m | |
| surface | 36.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 618 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 17 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 66220 | |
| INSEE code | 66046 | |
 View of the town and the pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-de-Laval |
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Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes ( Occitan : Caudièrs de Fenolhet ) is a southern French municipality with 618 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region .
geography
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is located in a valley of the Fenouillèdes , about 54 kilometers (driving distance) in a north-westerly direction from Perpignan . Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet , the capital of the canton, is a good eleven kilometers to the southwest. It is about seven kilometers to the west to the imposing castle ruins of Puilaurens .
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 792 | 677 | 618 | 580 | 598 | 586 | 618 |
economy
In Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes, as in the wooded area of the entire Fenouillèdes , there is a small amount of agriculture and forestry. The rental of holiday homes ( gîtes ) plays an important role in the economic life of the small community.
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is one of around 125 communes that are allowed to market their wine under the Côtes du Roussillon AOC designation of origin .
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 852. In the Middle Ages the place was ruled by a castle ( Castel-Fizel ), which also functioned as the seat of an administrative and judicial district viguerie .
Attractions
- The late Gothic pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-de-Laval is located in impressive surroundings on a hill above the village. It was (in the 15th century on the site of an older hermitage hermitage ) built. On the way from the village to the church there is a chapel with a figure of the Holy Family and an archway with two monolithic columns and reused Romanesque capitals; above it is a 15th-century Virgin and Child. The single-nave interior of the pilgrimage church is covered with a rib vault . Behind the altar there is a carved reredos with depictions of the life of the Virgin Mary.
- The castle ruins of Castel-Fizel are about two kilometers from the village and about 150 meters above the road.
Archway on the pilgrimage route
Tower and choir of the Notre-Dame church
Portal of the Church of Notre-Dame
