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Condat-sur-Vienne
Condat-sur-Vienne, a commune in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 6 km south of Limoges; chef-lieu of its canton, Limoges Métropole member, 5,281 residents (2023), Gaulish name meaning confluence, Gallo-Roman villa and mosaic.
Cordes-Tolosannes
Cordes-Tolosannes is a rural commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department of southwestern France, best known as a medieval bastide overlooking the Garonne valley with about 357 inhabitants.
Cubières
Cubières, Lozère commune in Occitanie, France (pop. 209, 2016), near Mont Lozère; known for the ancient-to-20th-century Neyrac lead-zinc-silver mines of the Bleymard district and their post-mining risks.
Fontans
Fontans is a commune (INSEE 48063) in Lozère, Occitanie, France, in the Margeride plateau near Saint-Chély-d'Apcher; about 227 inhabitants, elevation ~1,031 m, with a classified Romanesque-Gothic church of Saint-Pierre and an ancient temple site.
Fox-Amphoux
Fox-Amphoux (Fos Amfos) is a perched Provencal commune in the Var, France, at 540 m; known for the Gallo-Roman Clastre temple with a colossal Minerva statue, Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, and a cave chapel of Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours.
Gouts-Rossignols
Gouts-Rossignols (officially Gout-Rossignol, INSEE 24199) is a rural commune in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, formed in 1827 from Gout and Rossignol; 360 inhabitants in 2023, canton of Ribérac, two monuments historiques.
Grasse
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes commune and chef-lieu in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; population 50,970 (2023). Known as the world perfume capital, with UNESCO-listed perfumery know-how since 2018.
Hendaye
Hendaye (Hendaia) is a French Basque border commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques on the Bidassoa estuary facing Spain; 18,102 inhabitants in 2023, a 3 km beach, Abbadia cliffs, and cross-border Txingudi cooperation.
Lansargues
Lansargues (Latin Lansarnica) is a commune in Hérault, Occitanie, near the Étang de l'Or between Lunel and Mauguio; a villette of the barony of Lunel from 888, with a 4th-century necropolis, La Laune Gallo-Roman site, classified Saint-Martin church, and arènes.
Lanuéjols
Lanuéjols names two Occitanie communes: Lanuéjols (Gard, 30139) on the Causse Noir at 900 m, attested from 1150, and Lanuéjols (Lozère, 48081), home to a Gallo-Roman mausoleum of the Pomponii, classified Monument Historique since 1840.
Latresne
Latresne is a Gironde commune on the right bank of the Garonne, 12 km southwest of Bordeaux, in Entre-deux-Mers. Known for its Gallo-Roman villa, 12th-century Saint-Aubin church, château housing Aérocampus Aquitaine, and 3,714 inhabitants (2023).
Les Cars
Les Cars is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, about 25 km southwest of Limoges, known for the ruins of the Château des Cars.
Les Martys
Les Martys, Aude commune in the Montagne Noire, France, home to the Domaine des Forges, a major Roman iron-smelting center (about 50 BC to 270 AD) with a 2-3 million tonne slag heap, excavated from 1972 by Claude Domergue.
Lespignan
Lespignan, Hérault commune near Béziers with the Gallo-Roman villa of Vivios (classified 1993), Roman limestone quarries of the 1st–2nd centuries, a 1379 charter from Charles V, and the 1632 siege by Louis XIII.
Limoges
Limoges, prefecture of Haute-Vienne in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, historical capital of Limousin; city of porcelain and medieval enamels, kaolin discovery 1768, UNESCO Creative City 2017, about 130,000 inhabitants.
Mandelieu
Mandelieu (Mandelieu-La Napoule), Alpes-Maritimes commune on the Siagne mouth, Côte d'Azur: Roman villa and 1st-century pottery workshop at Minelle, lord Eucher around 400, Saracen destructions, castles of Avinionet, La Napoule rebuilt by Henry Clews, and Agecroft.
Marignac
Marignac is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region, lying in the Garonne valley about 30 km south of Saint-Gaudens.
Marseille
Marseille (Massalia) is France's second-largest city and oldest city, founded by Greeks from Phocaea in 600 BC on the Mediterranean. Key facts: 873,080 inhabitants (2021), France's largest port, lowest median income among the five biggest French cities, and the Marseille en Grand recovery plan.
Menton
Menton (INSEE 06083) is a commune of about 30,600 people in the Alpes-Maritimes, the easternmost town of the French Côte d'Azur between Monaco and Italy, known for its subtropical microclimate, its PGI lemon, and the Fête du Citron held each February since 1934.
Mézin
Mézin, Lot-et-Garonne commune in the Pays d'Albret, France; Cluniac Benedictine priory of Saint-Jean mentioned 1077, classified Romanesque-Gothic church of 1840, Calès Jupiter sanctuary, and a 19th-20th century cork industry center.
Millau
Millau (Aveyron, Occitanie, France), commune of about 22,000 inhabitants at the Tarn-Dourbie confluence; known for the Graufesenque Gallo-Roman pottery site, glove-making heritage, and the Millau Viaduct completed in 2004.
Monségur
Monségur (Montsegur in Gascon) is a bastide commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, founded by Eléonore de Provence in the 1260s on the Dropt river; distinct from Montségur in Ariège and from a namesake in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Montauban
Montauban, prefecture of Tarn-et-Garonne in Occitanie, France; a 1144 bastide on the Tarn, former Huguenot stronghold besieged in 1621, home of the Ingres Bourdelle Museum, population 62,945 in 2023.
Montmirat
Montmirat is the name of a commune in the Gard department of southern France, west of Nîmes, and of a former silver-lead mine and mountain pass in neighboring Lozère.
Montoulieu-Saint-Bernard
Montoulieu-Saint-Bernard, a commune of about 230 people in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, near Aurignac; INSEE 31386. Known for Gallo-Roman baths at Pélet, discovered in 1957, classified monument historique in 1960.
Montpellier
Montpellier, Occitanie, France: seventh-largest French city (307,101 inhabitants), medieval university city with Europe's oldest operating medical school (1220), 80,000 students, free resident public transport since 2023, five tram lines.
Montrodat
Montrodat (originally Montroca, Monte Rocato) is a Lozère commune near Marvejols, France; a viscountal domain and one of the twelve seigneuries of Gévaudan, first mentioned in 1091, with a Romanesque castle chapel and the Poujoulat dolmens.
Mornat
Mornat is a hamlet in Saint-Pardoux-les-Cards, Creuse, France (46.0966 N, 2.0932 E), also an ancient Roman Gaul site (BAtlas 14 H2) and the site of a silver-lead mine conceded by royal ordinance in 1824.
Moulis
Moulis: name of communes in southwest France, chiefly Moulis (Ariège, Couserans, on the Lez, CNRS cave lab with Proteus, Luzenac Gallo-Roman pile) and Moulis-en-Médoc (Gironde wine commune, Saint-Saturnin church); also a Reyniès lieu-dit.
Murato
Murato (Muratu) is a commune and canton chief town in the Nebbio region of northern Corsica, on the Bevinco river, with 577 inhabitants (2019). Known for the 12th-century Pisan Romanesque church of San Michele at the Ptolemy-recorded Lourinion site.