Agde

Agde

French commune
nomcommune=Agde

région=Languedoc-Roussillon
département=Hérault
arrondissement=Béziers
canton= Agde
insee=34003
cp=34300
maire=Gilles d'Ettore
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Hérault Méditerranée
longitude=3.47583333333
latitude=43.3108333333
alt moy=5 m
alt mini=0 m
alt maxi=110 m
hectares=5,081
km²=50.81
sans=19,988
date-sans=1999
dens=393.39
date-dens=1999

Agde is the commune in the Hérault department in southern France that is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi. Its inhabitants are called "Agathois".

Location

Agde is located on the river Hérault, 4 km from the Mediterranean Sea, and 750 km from Paris. The Canal du Midi connects to the Hérault at the lock ("L'Écluse Ronde d'Agde") just above Agde and empties into the Mediterranean at Le Grau d'Agde.

History

Agde ("Agathe Tyche", "good fortune") was a 5th century BCE Greek colony settled by Phocaeans ofrom Massilia. The symbol of the city, the bronze "Ephebe of Agde", of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two Early Imperial Roman bronzes, of a child and of Eros, which had doubtless been on their way to a villa in Gallia Narbonensis when they were lost in a shipwreck.

In 506 the Council of Agde was held at Agde.

Architecture

Agde is known for the distinctive black basalt used in the local architecture, for example the cathedral of Saint Stephen, built in the 12th century to replace a ninth century Carolingian edifice built on the foundations of a 5th century Roman church. Bishop Guillaume fortified the cathedral's precincts and provided it with a 35-meter "donjon". The Romanesque cloister of the cathedral was demolished in 1857.

Notes

ee also

* Cap d'Agde, the seaside resort of Agde
* Ancient Diocese of Agde
*List of traditional Greek place names

External links

* [http://www.ville-agde.fr/ Agde Town website]
* [http://www.agde-herault.com/ Agde Tourist Office]
* [http://www.ville-agde.fr/ Agde (official site)]
* [http://www.villagenaturiste-agde.com Agde has one of the biggest naturist centres of Europe]
* [http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.77.a.php Richard Stillwell, ed. "Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites", 1976:] "Agatha (Agde) Hérault, France"
* [http://www.culture.fr/fr/sections/regions/languedoc_roussillon/organisme/MUSEO-3400302 Recent undersea find of bronzes]


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