Sainte-Foy-la-Grande

Sainte-Foy-la-Grande
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Libourne
Canton	Le Réolais and Les Bastides
Community association	Pays Foyen
Coordinates	44 ° 50 ′ N , 0 ° 13 ′ E Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ N , 0 ° 13 ′ E
height	7-20 m
surface	0.51 km 2
Residents	2,554 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	5,008 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	33220
INSEE code	33402
Website	Sainte-Foy-la-Grande
	; Market place with arcades

Sainte-Foy-la-Grande is a French commune with 2,554 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) on the Dordogne in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The city is located about 50 km east of Bordeaux . It belongs to the canton of Le Réolais et Les Bastides .

Sainte-Foy-la-Grande is on the Bordeaux - Bergerac railway line .

history

Sainte-Foy-la-Grande was built as a typical checkerboard bastide on July 16, 1255 by Alfons of Poitiers (1220-1271), Count of Toulouse and brother of the French King Louis IX. , of the saint. Sainte-Foy-la-Grande converted to Protestantism in 1541 and remained a spiritual center of Calvinism for a long time .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2017
Residents	3152	3186	3345	2967	2745	2788	2560	2554
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande

Personalities

Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815–1865), doctor and zoologist
Paul Broca (1824–1880), anthropologist and doctor
Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer and anarchist
Elisée Bouny (1872–1900), physician and physiologist
Élie Faure (1873–1937), art historian and essayist

Community partnerships

Rotenburg (Wümme) district , Lower Saxony, Germany (since 1973)
Berthierville , Québec , Canada (since 1983)

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1459-1469.

Web links

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