Sorède

French commune
nomcommune=Sorède
région=Languedoc-Roussillon
département=Pyrénées-Orientales
arrondissement=Céret
canton=Argelès-sur-Mer
insee=66196
cp=66690
maire=Yves Porteix
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm= Communauté des Communes des Albères
longitude=2.9575
latitude=42.5313888889
alt moy=80 m
alt mini=42 m
alt maxi=1,241 m
hectares=3,454
km²=34.54
sans=2,699
date-sans=1999
dens=78
date-dens=1999

Sorède (Catalan: "Sureda") is a French commune in the departement of Pyrenées-Orientales.

Administration

Population

:1962: 1,138:1968: 1,164:1975: 1,491:1982: 1,896:1990: 2,160:1999: 2,699

ights and Monuments

* The main church "St Assiscle et Ste Victoire", 14th century choir, 17th century Baroque sculptures.
* Notre-Dame du Château, an 18th century sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the mountains, and the ruins of the castle of Ultrera, dating from the early Middle Ages.
* Saint Martin de Lavail, a 9th century Romanesque chapel.

Notable people who lived in Sorède

* Father Antonio Gomes, known as « Padre Himalaya », a Portuguese scientist and priest who experimented one of the first solar ovens in Sorède in 1900.