Villeneuve-Loubet
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Grasse | |
| Canton | Villeneuve-Loubet | |
| Community association | Sophia Antipolis | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 39 ′ N , 7 ° 7 ′ E | |
| height | 0-213 m | |
| surface | 19.60 km 2 | |
| Residents | 15,241 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 778 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 06270 | |
| INSEE code | 06161 | |
| Website | www.villeneuveloubet.fr | |
 Old town of the municipality |
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Villeneuve-Loubet is a French municipality with 15,241 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Villeneuve-Loubet in the Arrondissement of Grasse and is located on the Côte d'Azur southwest of Cagnes-sur-Mer .
geography
location
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The old town of Villeneuve-Loubet is grouped on a mountain slope, at the foot of which the Loup River flows into the sea .
To the south of the mouth of the Loup is the newer district of Villeneuve-Loubet-Plage, which was created in the 1950s. The Marina Baie des Anges holiday complex was built on the beach, visible from afar. It consists of four gigantic, pyramid-shaped high-rise buildings with a curved facade.
population
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 2,769 | 3,865 | 6.001 | 8,083 | 11,539 | 12,935 | 15.091 | 14,672 |
history
In September 1913 derailed a EMUs on a bridge at Villeneuve-Loubet. A segment of the vehicle crashed. 20 people died and 40 were injured.
politics
With the Italian city of Forlimpopoli in the Emilia-Romagna Villeneuve-Loubet maintains a city partnership .
Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Villeneuve-Loubet
Personalities
- Auguste Escoffier , French master chef (1846–1935); the Musée de l'Art Culinaire (Museum of Culinary Art ) in the house where he was born is dedicated to him
- Françoise Dorléac , French actress (born March 21, 1942 in Paris, † June 26, 1967 in Villeneuve-Loubet)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Alpes-Maritimes . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-071-X , pp. 212-219.
Web links
- Office de Tourisme - Tourist Office (French / English)
- Website of the Escoffier Foundation with information about the museum (French / English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 43.