La Ciotat
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Bouches-du-Rhône | |
| Arrondissement | Marseille | |
| Canton | La Ciotat | |
| Community association | Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 11 ' N , 5 ° 36' E | |
| height | 0-388 m | |
| surface | 31.46 km 2 | |
| Residents | 35,174 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,118 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 13600 | |
| INSEE code | 13028 | |
| Website | www.laciotat.com | |
 Port of La Ciotat |
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La Ciotat [ ˌlasjoˈtaː ] ( Provencal La Ciutat or La Ciéuta for "the city") is a port and industrial city with 35,174 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in southern France on the Côte d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhône department , about 30 kilometers east of Marseille . The city is dominated by the Bec de l'Aigle , a reddish rock ( 155 m ). In the sea in front of the city lies the island of Île Verte . La Ciotat is the southernmost municipality in the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
history
At the time of the Romans the place was called Citharista .
The place only became independent in 1429. At that time, at the insistence of the residents, the area of Ceyreste, to which the place had previously belonged, was divided and an independent community La Ciotat was established. From then on, the community developed rapidly: fortifications were built and a church was built. Trade developed well as a result of the construction of a port.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 18,827 | 23,916 | 32,721 | 31,727 | 30,620 | 31,630 | 32,126 | 35,366 |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
traffic
La Ciotat to Cassis leading Corniche des Crêtes , a 15km long, winding scenic road (D 141) with great views of the sea and the creeks of high cliffs down. The most famous rock is the Cap Canaille . The route impresses with striking rock formations and numerous hiking trails lead through this area, which is part of the Calanques National Park .
At the train station of La Ciotat in 1895 by Auguste and Louis Lumière of the silent film " The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat shot". It shows how a train pulls into the station and travelers get off and on. This was one of the first films ever made and shown publicly from 1896.
economy
Economically, tourism, the port and the shipyard dominate the coastal city.
Town twinning
La Ciotat is connected to through town twinning
- Bridgwater in the English county of Somerset , since 1957
- Kranj in Slovenia , since 1958
- Singen (Hohentwiel) in the south of Baden-Württemberg , since 1968
- Torre Annunziata in Campania (Italy), since 2005
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Albert Londe (1858–1917), photographer, pioneer of X-ray photography
- Louis-Joseph Maurin (1859-1936), Cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon (1916-1936)
- René Donoyan (* 1940), soccer goalkeeper
- Olivier Dahan (* 1967), film director
- Yoan Cardinale (* 1994), goalkeeper
Connected to the city
- The Lumière brothers shot some of their first films in La Ciotat.
- The architect Pierre Bossan (1814–1888) spent the last years of his life in La Ciotat and gathered a circle of architects and artists around him.
Others
The Lumière brothers made some of their first films in La Ciotat, where the family lived, in 1895:
- The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat ( L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat )
- Babies breakfast (Repas de bébé) and
- The watered gardener (L'Arroseur arrosé) .
They also took their first color photographs in the bay of La Ciotat. The city is also home to the oldest surviving cinema in the world, Eden , which opened in 1889 .
In 1907 Ernest Pitiot allowed his friend Jules Le Noir, who suffered from rheumatism, to play at a shorter distance in a game of Jeu Provençal in La Ciotat. This was the hour of birth of the boules game pétanque , which owes its name to the Provencal words "ped tanca" (closed feet).
The steamship Ville de La Ciotat (6461 GRT ) was built in La Ciotad in 1892 at the Chantiers Navals shipyard.
Under the title The soldier from La Ciotat was Bertolt Brecht one of his calendar stories in La Ciotat play.
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Ciotat pronunciation: How to pronounce La Ciotat in French. Retrieved May 16, 2012 .
- ^ John Huntley: Railways in the Cinema . London 1969, pp. 7, 113.
- ↑ La Ciotat website ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Johann Baptist Keune : Kitharistes . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Col. 529 f.
