Le Muy (French pronunciation: ​[lə mɥi]; Occitan: Lo Muei) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 9,288.

Le Muy Lo Muei (Occitan)
Commune
The Charles Quint Tower, an historic monument which contains the Liberation Museum.
Coat of arms
Location of Le Muy
Le Muy Show map of France Le Muy Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°28′25″N 6°34′00″E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Var
Arrondissement	Draguignan
Canton	Vidauban
Intercommunality	CA Dracénie Provence Verdon
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Liliane Boyer[1]
Area 1	66.58 km2 (25.71 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	9,288
• Density	140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	83086 /83490
Elevation	7–561 m (23–1,841 ft) (avg. 30 m or 98 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Muy was one of the first places to be liberated in the Allied invasion of Southern France in August 1944. It lies to the southeast of Draguignan and north-northwest of Saint-Tropez.

Population

Tourism

In the Charles Quint Tower (Tour Charles Quint), tourists can visit the Liberation Museum,[4] about Operation Dragoon in 1944.

See also

• Communes of the Var department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Muy.

• Official site
• Tourisme Office website

На других языках

[de] Le Muy

[ru] Ле-Мюи