La Garde-Freinet

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La Garde-Freinet
Coat of arms of La Garde-Freinet
La Garde-Freinet (France)
La Garde-Freinet
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Var
Arrondissement Draguignan
Canton Le Luc
Community association Golfe de Saint-Tropez
Coordinates 43 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 28 ′  E
height 60-674 m
surface 76.64 km 2
Residents 1,887 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 25 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 83680
INSEE code 83063
Website www.lagardefreinet.fr

La Garde-Freinet is a French commune with 1,887 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Var in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Draguignan and the canton of Le Luc .

history

Traditionally, La Garde-Freinet is considered to be the place where the Saracens settled in Provence in the 890s (see: Fraxinetum ). After the Battle of Tourtour , they were driven from here (and from Provence) by Count Wilhelm I in 973 .

gallery

  • View of La Garde-Freinet

  • The marketplace

  • The church from 1698

  • Place de la Fontaine Vieille

Personalities

  • Henri Andréani , actor and director.
  • Patrick Modiano (* 1945), writer, said he wrote (in: Un pedigree , Paris 2005, p. 116; German: A family tree , Munich 2007) his award-winning first novel La Place de l'Etoile (Paris 1968, 2004; German Munich 2010) started to write in July 1966 in La Garde-Freinet.

Web links

Commons : La Garde-Freinet  - collection of images, videos and audio files