Canet-en-Roussillon

Canet-en-Roussillon

*Canet de Rosselló* (Catalan)
Canet-en-Roussillon Canet de Rosselló (Catalan)
Commune
	Aerial view of the port and the sea front at Canet-en-Roussillon
	Coat of arms
	Location of Canet-en-Roussillon
	Canet-en-Roussillon Canet-en-Roussillon
	Coordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	La Côte Sableuse
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Stéphane Loda
Area 1	30.22 km2 (11.67 sq mi)
Population (2021)	12,598
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	canétois (fr); canetenc, canetaire (ca)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66037 /66140
Elevation	0–37 m (0–121 ft) ; (avg. 6 m or 20 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Canet-en-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [kane ɑ̃ ʁusijɔ̃]; Catalan: Canet de Rosselló, [kəˈnɛt ˈde rusəˈʎo]; Occitan: Canet de Rosselhon, [kaˈnet de ruseˈʎu]) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania.^[3]

Geography

Canet-en-Roussillon is located in the canton of La Côte Sableuse and in the arrondissement of Perpignan, 9.4 km (5.8 mi) to the east of Perpignan.

It is part of the Northern Catalan comarca of Rosselló.

History

The city walls were destroyed in the 19th century.

With the development of sea bathing, the first beach settlement for bathers of the coast of Pyrénées-Orientales was created by Louise Lombard in 1849.^[4] As early as 1854 municipal laws were established regulating types of bathing suits and separating sea bathing zones for men and women.^[5]

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor^[6]	Term start	Term end	Party
Joseph Cassanyes	1790	1792
Jacques Bonet	1792	1795
Jacques Cassanyes	1796	1797
Julien Canal	1798	1798
Jacques Cassanyes	1799	1800
Jacques Bonet	1800	1813
Joseph Cassanyes	February 1813	28 October 1814
Saturnin Cargoles	1814	1826
Antoine Gaux	1826	1831
Joseph Cassanyes Jr.	1831	1848
Julien Canal Jr.	March 1848	June 1848	Temporary Mayor
Pierre Roger	June 1848	September 1848	Temporary Mayor
Joseph Cassanyes	September 1848	August 1851
Julien Canal	August 1851	December 1851	Temporary Mayor
Julien Canal	1851	1865
Jean Bartissol	1865	September 1870
Michel Pages	September 1870	December 1870
Joseph Berga	1870	1874
Côme Roger	1874	1881
Jean Lafon	1881	1890
Jacques Xamma	1891	1892
Henri Castany	1892	1904
Basile Darbon	1904	May 1912
Isidore Boutet^[7]	May 1912	1918
François Alies^[8]	1918	1919
Joseph Lafon	1920	1925
Jacques Xamma	1925	1930
Joseph Lafon	1929	1930
Gabriel Henric	1930	1941
Désiré Riu	1941	1943
Pierre Fourcade	1943	1944
Gabriel Henric	1944	1947
Joseph Pagès	1947	1950
François Moudat	1950	1965
Christian Brignieu	1965	1966
François Moudat	1966	1971
Jacques Coupet	1971	1989
Arlette Franco	1989	2010	UMP
Bernard Dupont	2010	2020	UMP
Stéphane Loda	2020	incumbent	DVD

International relations

Canet-en-Roussillon is twinned with:

Maynooth, Ireland

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	225	—
1800	281	+3.23%
1806	233	−3.07%
1821	365	+3.04%
1831	384	+0.51%
1836	388	+0.21%
1841	405	+0.86%
1846	466	+2.85%
1851	509	+1.78%
1856	498	−0.44%
1861	524	+1.02%
1866	612	+3.15%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1872	662	+1.32%
1876	754	+3.31%
1881	806	+1.34%
1886	887	+1.93%
1891	914	+0.60%
1896	1,012	+2.06%
1901	1,026	+0.28%
1906	1,102	+1.44%
1911	1,215	+1.97%
1921	1,226	+0.09%
1926	1,230	+0.07%
1931	1,199	−0.51%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1936	1,238	+0.64%
1946	1,213	−0.20%
1954	1,853	+5.44%
1962	2,646	+4.55%
1968	3,658	+5.55%
1975	4,356	+2.53%
1982	6,030	+4.76%
1990	7,575	+2.89%
1999	10,182	+3.34%
2007	12,164	+2.25%
2012	12,602	+0.71%
2017	12,130	−0.76%

Source: EHESS^[9] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[10]

Sites of interest

The medieval castle ;
The Saint-James church ;
The Château de l'Esparrou, a 19th c. manor ;
The old village ;
The sea front.

Notable people

Arlette Franco (1939-2010), mayor of Canet-en-Roussillon, deputy to the National Assembly of France and vice-president of the French Swimming Federation.
Marc Fontan (1956-), motorcycle road racer born in Canet-en-Roussillon.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Birkui, Françoise (2013). Le Matrimoine catalan : 66 femmes [Catalan matrimony : 66 women] (in French). Canet-en-Roussillon: Trabucaïre. ISBN 978-2-84974-166-5.
^ Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
^ MairesGenWeb
^ Cardenas, Fabricio (29 August 2014). "Nomination du maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Cardenas, Fabricio (24 March 2015). "Nomination de l'adjoint au maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Canet-en-Roussillon, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE