Talence
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Gironde | |
| Arrondissement | Bordeaux | |
| Canton | Talence (main town) | |
| Community association | Bordeaux metropolis | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 35 ′ W | |
| height | 9–31 m | |
| surface | 8.35 km 2 | |
| Residents | 42,606 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5,103 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 33400 | |
| INSEE code | 33522 | |
.jpg) Thouars Castle |
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Talence [ Talas ] ( Occitan Talença ) is a French city with 42,606 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The city is located in the Arrondissement of Bordeaux and forms its own canton . It is located southwest in the suburbs of Bordeaux and is accessed by tram and bus lines of the TBC .
Talence is shaped by the largest campus of the University of Bordeaux . After the May riots in 1968 , it was largely relocated to this then sleepy suburb in order to "remove" the students who were generally considered to be troublemakers from the center of Bordeaux.
Talence is also a wine-growing town in the Graves wine-growing region and belongs to the Pessac-Léognan appellation .
Among track and field athletes, Talence is known as the venue for the annual all-round meeting “ Décastar ”.
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments historiques in Talence
Town twinning
Talence has partnerships with Alcalá de Henares in Spain (since 1985) and Chaves in Portugal (since 2004).
Personalities
- Jean d'Eaubonne (1903–1971), film architect
- Henri de Laborde de Monpezat (1934–2018), Prince Consort of the Danish Queen Margrethe II.
- Christian Blanc (* 1942), manager and politician
- Marie-Hélène Breillat (* 1947), actress, writer and painter
- Jérôme Cahuzac (* 1952), politician
- José Bové (* 1953), green politician and activist
- Thierry Lataste (* 1954), Fonctionnaire
- Vincent Rivasseau (* 1955), mathematical physicist
- Jean-Louis Desvignes (* 1956), football player
- Thierry Meyssan (* 1957), controversial journalist and political activist
- Hervé Granger-Veyron (* 1958), saber fencer
- Olivier Marchal (* 1958), actor, director and screenwriter
- Sandrine Doucet (1959–2019), politician
- François Golse (* 1962), mathematician
- Eric Lebrun (* 1967), organist and composer
- Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (* 1969), film director
- Thibault Giresse (* 1981), football player
- Gérald Cid (* 1983), football player
- Romain Brégerie (* 1986), football player
- Damien Da Silva (* 1988), football player
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1501-1520.
Web links
Individual evidence