Intercommunality Pyrénées Cerdagne Area 7.85 km² Local time Friday 9:50 AM | Region Occitanie Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 1,255 (2007) | |
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Weather 4°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 92% Humidity | ||
Bourg-Madame (Catalan: la Guingueta d'Ix) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
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Map of 66760 Bourg-Madame, France
Localisation
Bourg-Madame is located in the canton of Saillagouse and in the arrondissement of Prades. It lies right on the border with Spain. It abuts directly onto the Spanish town of Puigcerdà, and is near the Spanish exclave of Llívia.
Toponymy
The town used to be known in French as Les Guinguettes, until 1815 when it was renamed Bourg-Madame in honour of the wife of the Duke of Angoulême. The Catalan name for the town is still the traditional one.
International relations
The commune is twinned with:
References
Bourg-Madame Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA