Marmande

The church and cloister in Marmande

Coat of arms

Marmande

Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

Marmande

Coordinates: 44°30′N 0°10′E / 44.50°N 0.17°ECoordinates: 44°30′N 0°10′E / 44.50°N 0.17°E

Country

Marmande

Communauté de communes du Val de Garonne

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Gérard Gouzes

Area¹

45.06 km² (17.40 sq mi)

Population (2007)²

17,161

• Density

380/km² (990/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

470157 /47200

Elevation

12–132 m (39–433 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Marmande (French pronunciation: [maʁmɑ̃d]; in Occitan, Marmanda) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département in south-western France.

Marmande is located 35 km north-west of Agen, on the southern railway from Bordeaux to Sète. The town is situated at the confluence of the Trec with the Garonne on the right bank of the latter river, which is crossed at this point by a suspension bridge. There is a second bridge to the west of Marmande which connects the D933 from the Toulouse/Bordeaux motorway (A62) to the new by-pass, opened in July 2009, which now leads to Bergerac and the département of the Dordogne. Marmande ranks 481st in terms of population for the whole of France. A noted producer of tomatoes, a festival dedicated to tomatoes is held annually in July.

Marmande was a bastide founded about 1195 on the site of a more ancient town by Richard Cœur de Lion, who granted it a liberal measure of self-government. Its position on the banks of the Garonne made it an important place of toll. It soon passed into the hands of the counts of Toulouse, and was three times besieged and taken during the Albigensian Crusade, its capture by Amaury de Montfort in 1219 being followed by a massacre of the inhabitants. It was united to the French crown under Louis IX. A short occupation by the English in 1447, an unsuccessful siege by Henry IV in 1577 and its resistance of a month to a division of Wellington's army in 1814, are some important events in its subsequent history.

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