Bourg-Madame

Bourg-Madame
Bourg-Madame ; La Guingueta d'Ix
	Commune
	The town hall in Bourg-Madame
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bourg-Madame
	Bourg-Madame Bourg-Madame
	Coordinates: 42°26′07″N 1°56′41″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Les Pyrénées catalanes
Intercommunality	Pyrénées Cerdagne
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Jacques Fortuny
Area 1	7.85 km2 (3.03 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	1,224
• Density	160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66025 /66760
Elevation	1,130–1,235 m (3,707–4,052 ft) ; (avg. 1,130 m or 3,710 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bourg-Madame (Catalan: la Guingueta d'Ix) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Bourg-Madame is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes 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.

Map of Bourg-Madame and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

Toponymy

The town used to be known in French as Les Guinguettes,[2] 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.

History

In the 20th century Bourg-Madame was the site of a camp housing Republican escapees from Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War.[3]

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Thomas Casals[4]	1930	?
Jean Salvat[5]	1945	1965
Joseph Calvet	1965	1995
Jean-Jacques Fortuny	1995

Transport

Roads

The following major roads lead to Bourg-Madame:

N-20 from Ur to the north;
N-154 and D-68 from the Spanish enclave Llívia to the northeast;
N-116 from Saillagouse to the east;
D-30 and D-70 from Osséja and Palau-de-Cerdagne to the southeast;
N-152 from Puigcerdà to the west.

Railways

Bourg-Madame is located at a key point of intersection for railways that link Toulouse, Barcelona, and Valencia (as well as Perpignan to the east via the Yellow Train).

The railway station is located in the Arena district.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	766	—
1968	821	+7.2%
1975	1,120	+36.4%
1982	1,257	+12.2%
1990	1,238	−1.5%
1999	1,166	−5.8%
2006	1,262	+8.2%
2009	1,234	−2.2%

International relations

The commune is twinned with:

Vespella de Gaià, Spain

References

INSEE commune file

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Jtosti.com
Beevor, Antony (2001). The Spanish Civil War. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks. p. 394. ISBN 0 304 35840 1.
(in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Bombardement collatéral en Cerdagne, janvier 1938, 23 december 2014
(in French) L'Indépendant, La parole aux deux nouveaux sénateurs, 5 october 2011

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[laguingueta-2] Jtosti.com

[3] Beevor, Antony (2001). The Spanish Civil War. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks. p. 394. ISBN 0 304 35840 1.

[4] (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Bombardement collatéral en Cerdagne, janvier 1938, 23 december 2014

[5] (in French) L'Indépendant, La parole aux deux nouveaux sénateurs, 5 october 2011