Fitou
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Aude | |
| Arrondissement | Narbonne | |
| Canton | Les Corbières Maritimes | |
| Community association | Corbières Salanque Méditerranée | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 54 ' N , 2 ° 59' E | |
| height | 0-318 m | |
| surface | 30.25 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,060 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 35 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 11510 | |
| INSEE code | 11144 | |
| Website | www.fitou.fr | |
Fitou is a municipality in the south of France with 1060 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aude department in the Occitanie region and at the same time namesake of the Fitou wine-growing region . The inhabitants of the place call themselves les Fitounais .
geography
The wine village is on the edge of a hilly landscape, the Corbières , in a flat, V-shaped valley cut that opens to the Étang de Leucate . Due to the sloping valley location, a lot of water quickly collects in the stream flowing through it when it rains heavily, so that the main road is flooded relatively often.
The municipality is located in the Regional Nature Park Narbonnaise en Méditerranée .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 566 | 555 | 537 | 542 | 579 | 676 | 808 | 1055 |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
Attractions
In the castle ruins of Fitou, at the upper end of the village, a museum is housed, in which scenes from the medieval “knight times” are reproduced, including some scenes of torture. It also houses a collection of weapons and a collection of actual or alleged instruments of torture.
The exact date of construction of the castle complex is not known. It first appeared in 990 in a will in which the villa in Fictorius was bequeathed. The sovereign territory of the lords of the castle extended to Salses . Due to its location, the castle was exposed to numerous attacks. It was besieged, burned and rebuilt several times. The d'Aragon family were the last of the castle's numerous owners. They lived there until the French Revolution . In 1843 the castle was looted and burned down.
Personalities
- Guillaume Mirabel (1744–1794), general of the cavalry
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ story on fitou.fr (French)