Gréoux-les-Bains
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | |
| Arrondissement | Forcalquier | |
| Canton | Valensole | |
| Community association | Durance-Luberon-Verdon agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 45 ' N , 5 ° 53' E | |
| height | 268-571 m | |
| surface | 69.46 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,634 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 38 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 04800 | |
| INSEE code | 04094 | |
| Website | www.greoux-les-bains.com | |
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Gréoux-les-Bains is a French commune , and a spa in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur with 2,634 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017). It belongs to the canton of Valensole in the Forcalquier arrondissement .
geography
Gréoux-les-Bains is located in the southwest of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department on the banks of the Verdon . On site, the Verdon is dammed into the “Barrage de Gréoux”. The municipality is part of the Verdon Regional Nature Park .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1039 | 1182 | 1296 | 1635 | 1718 | 1921 | 2455 | 2634 |
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Economy and tourism
The thermal springs (42 ° C with magnesium and trace elements), which have been known since Celtic times , have been used intensively again since the 1960s, so that Gréoux-les-Bains is visited by over 30,000 guests during the spa season from March to November.
The Knights Templar castle dominates the townscape. It never belonged to the Knights Templar , but for a time to the Order of Malta . The ruin , classified as a monument historique , has been owned by the municipality since the early 1980s.
Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Gréoux-les-Bains
Town twinning
Since 1985 there has been a town partnership with Bad Krozingen in Baden-Württemberg .
