Langon (Gironde)
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Gironde | |
| Arrondissement | Langon | |
| Canton | Le Sud-Gironde (main town) | |
| Community association | South Gironde | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 33 ′ N , 0 ° 15 ′ W | |
| height | 0-73 m | |
| surface | 13.71 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,375 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 538 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 33210 | |
| INSEE code | 33227 | |
| Website | Langon | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Langon is a French town with 7375 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The city is the seat of the sub-prefecture ( French Sous- prefecture ) of the Langon arrondissement and belongs to the canton of Le Sud-Gironde .
Langon is located on the Garonne , just under 50 kilometers southeast of Bordeaux .
traffic
Langon lies on the Bordeaux – Sète railway line , which crosses the Garonne here on the Langon railway bridge.
The place is important as a river port because the special goods ship Breuil transports parts of the A380 to / from Toulouse there.
From the river bank at the Place de la Liberation at the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais de Langon church , a river pillar can still be seen in the Garonne, which originally served a suspension bridge built by Ferdinand Arnodin , which was later replaced by a lattice girder bridge.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2016 |
| Residents | 5375 | 5356 | 5843 | 5836 | 5842 | 6168 | 7409 | 7377 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church, built from the 13th century, classified as a monument historique since 2006
- Maison Biros , Renaissance residential building
- Mosque , built in 1904
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Langon (Gironde)
Town twinning
In 1981 Langon signed a town partnership with the German town of Penzberg in Bavaria . Langon signed a friendship treaty with the Portuguese city of Canelas in 1993.
Born in Langon
- Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837–1920), color photography pioneer
- Raymond Oliver (1909–1990), cook and cookbook author
- Thomas Boudat (* 1994), racing cyclist
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 835-840.
