Viella (Gers)
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Viella Vièla |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gers | |
| Arrondissement | Mirande | |
| Canton | Adour-Gersoise | |
| Community association | Armagnac Adour | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 36 ' N , 0 ° 8' E | |
| height | 109-250 m | |
| surface | 22.02 km 2 | |
| Residents | 511 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 23 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 32400 | |
| INSEE code | 32463 | |
 Landscape with a vineyard in Viella |
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Viella ( Gascon : viela) is a French municipality with 511 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Gers in the region Okzitanien ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Mirande .
geography
Viella is located around 15 kilometers southeast of the small town of Aire-sur-l'Adour in the west of the Gers department on the border with the Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments . It belongs to the Côtes de Saint-Mont wine region . The most important bodies of water are the Larcis and Saget rivers , a number of streams and some reservoirs and small ponds. The most important supra-regional transport connection is the A65 autoroute (part of Europastraße 7 ), a few kilometers west of the municipality . Riscle is the nearest bus stop (bus line 940 Aire-sur-l'Adour - Tarbes).
Viella is surrounded by the neighboring communities Labarthète and Saint-Mont in the north, Riscle in the northeast, Maumusson-Laguian in the east, Saint-Lanne (in the Hautes-Pyrénées department) in the southeast, Aydie and Aubous (both in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department) in the south , Portet (in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department) in the southwest, Verlus in the west and Aurensan in the northwest.
history
The municipality is historically located within Gascony and belongs to the Bas-Armagnac region . From 1793 to 1801 Viella belonged to the district of Nogaro, from 1793-1801 and from 1802 to 2015 to the canton Riscle (1801-1802 to the canton of Barcelonne).
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1800 | 1831 | 1901 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1326 | 1227 | 1811 | 1585 | 705 | 674 | 595 | 626 | 580 | 560 | 538 | 534 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Pierre village church from the 18th century
- 18th century castle (formerly owned by the Marquis de Viella)
- numerous crosses and wayside crosses
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Saint-Pierre village church
Mairie (Town Hall) of Maulichères
Memorial to the Fallen
Viella Boulodrome
Viticulture
The place belongs to the Béarn wine region .
