Urt (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)

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Urt
Ahurti
Coat of arms of Urt
Urt (France)
Judgment
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Bayonne
Canton Nive-Adour
Community association Pays Basque
Coordinates 43 ° 30 ′  N , 1 ° 17 ′  W 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
Website http://www.urt.fr/

Town hall of Urt

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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
  • 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
Notre-Dame de Belloc monastery

Web links

Commons : Urt  - collection of images, videos and audio files