Urt (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Urt Ahurti |
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
Arrondissement | Bayonne | |
Canton | Nive-Adour | |
Community association | Pays Basque | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 30 ′ N , 1 ° 17 ′ W | |
height | 0-111 m | |
surface | 18.99 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,301 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 121 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 64240 | |
INSEE code | 64546 | |
Website | http://www.urt.fr/ | |
Town hall of Urt |
Urt ( Basque : Ahurti ) is a French municipality with 2301 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Bayonne and the canton of Nive-Adour (until 2015: canton of La Bastide-Clairence ). The inhabitants are called Urtois (or Basque: Ahurtiar ).
geography
The municipality is located in the French Basque Country in the historical province of Labourd on the Adour River , into which the Joyeuse and its Suhihandia tributary flows. Urt is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse in the north and north-west, Guiche in the north-east, Bardos in the east, Hasparren in the south, Briscous in the west and south-west, Urcuit in the west and Saint-Barthélemy in the north-west.
The Autoroute A64 and the former Route nationale 636 (today's D936) run through the municipality . The municipality's train station is on the Toulouse – Bayonne railway line .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 1,180 | 1,047 | 1,055 | 1,120 | 1,583 | 1,702 | 1,988 | 2,220 |
Attractions
- Assomption-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie church, built in 1675
- Immaculée-Concepcion Chapel, built in 1863
- Monastery Notre-Dame de Belloc , Benedictine Monastery, built in 1875
- House of the French semioticist Roland Barthes