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Villefranche de Conflent

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Country
  
France

Canton
  
Prades

INSEE/Postal code
  
66223 /66500

Population
  
235 (2007)

Population (2006)2
  
244

Department
  
Pyrénées-Orientales

Region
  
Occitanie

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
4.46 km²

Local time
  
Monday 5:27 PM

Arrondissement
  
Prades

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Elevation
  
390–1,395 m (1,280–4,577 ft) (avg. 432 m or 1,417 ft)

Weather
  
19°C, Wind NW at 19 km/h, 49% Humidity

Villefranche-de-Conflent (Catalan: Vilafranca de Conflent) is historically a town in the Conflent region of Catalonia, and now a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

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Map of Villefranche-de-Conflent, France

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Locality

Villefranche-de-Conflent is located in the canton of Prades and in the arrondissement of Prades.

The town's confined site, at about 440 m above sea level, is relatively level ground surrounded by

  • the northeast-flowing river Têt (on the town's west and north),
  • the Cady, which flows north to empty into the Têt (on the east), and
  • a peak (at nearly 800 m), less than 800 m away (on the south).

    • Transport

    Roads

    The N116 from Perpignan on the Mediterranean passes, as a two-lane highway, between the southern town wall and an embankment cut into the high ground to the south; this route continues west into the adjacent Cerdagne region.

    Train

    The town's train station starts and ends the route of the scenic Yellow train.

    History

    The original town dates from 1098, and was fortified because of its strategic position in lands that changed hands between French and Spanish occupation.

  • In 1374, Villefranche resisted the siege of Jaume III the son of last king of Majorca.
  • In July 1654, the French captured the city after eight days, and the troops of Louis XIV took Puigcerda from the Spaniards.
  • The town was part of the program of construction and improvement of outlying French defenses led by through 1707 by Marshal Vauban, and as such is listed as a World Heritage Site.

    • The defensive walls of the town remain.

    References

    Villefranche-de-Conflent Wikipedia
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