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Lézignan-Corbières (French pronunciation: [leziɲɑ̃ kɔʁbjɛʁ] (listen); Occitan: Lesinhan de las Corbièras) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Situated in the Corbières wine region not far from Narbonne, it has a Vine and Wine Museum (Musée de la Vigne et du Vin).

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Lézignan-Corbières
Commune
The church in Lézignan-Corbières
Coat of arms
Location of Lézignan-Corbières
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Coordinates: 43°12′05″N 2°45′30″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Narbonne
Canton	Le Lézignanais
Intercommunality	Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gérard Forcada
Area 1	37.68 km2 (14.55 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	11,317
• Density	300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11203 /11200
Elevation	19–187 m (62–614 ft) (avg. 51 m or 167 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

The river Orbieu flows northeast through the southeastern part of the commune and forms part of its eastern border. Lézignan-Corbières station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,379 —     1800 1,505 +1.26% 1806 1,668 +1.73% 1821 1,669 +0.00% 1831 1,792 +0.71% 1836 2,269 +4.83% 1841 2,168 −0.91% 1846 2,442 +2.41% 1851 2,537 +0.77% 1856 2,754 +1.65% 1861 3,016 +1.83% 1866 3,934 +5.46% 1872 3,969 +0.15% 1876 4,670 +4.15% 1881 6,286 +6.12% 1886 6,569 +0.88% 1891 4,792 −6.11% 1896 4,857 +0.27%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 4,951 +0.38% 1906 6,339 +5.07% 1911 6,787 +1.38% 1921 7,039 +0.37% 1926 7,152 +0.32% 1931 7,227 +0.21% 1936 7,248 +0.06% 1946 6,986 −0.37% 1954 6,682 −0.55% 1962 6,939 +0.47% 1968 7,558 +1.43% 1975 7,355 −0.39% 1982 7,514 +0.31% 1990 7,881 +0.60% 1999 8,266 +0.53% 2007 9,712 +2.04% 2012 10,883 +2.30% 2017 11,168 +0.52%
Source: EHESS[2] and INSEE (1968-2017)[3]

Sport

Football Club de Lézignan (also known as Lézignan Sangliers - the Wild Boars) are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Lézignan-Corbières. They became French Champions for the first time in 30 years at the end of the 2007-2008 national competition.

Lezignan 9s is a rugby league nines tournament.

A FlyZone Indoor Skydiving Windtunnel has opened in November 2011 http://www.flyzone.fr/

Education

Schools include:[4]

Public preschools (école maternelle):

• Ecole Maternelle Alphonse Daudet
• Ecole Escouto Can Plaou
• Ecole Maternelle Françoise Dolto

Public primary schools (école primaire):

• Ecole Frédéric Mistral (from CP to CE1)
• Ecole Marie-Curie (from CE2 to CM2)

Public junior high schools (collège):

• Collège Joseph Anglade
• Collège Rosa Parks

There is one public senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Ernest Ferroul.

Private schools:

• L'Institut l'Amandier (collège-lycée)
• Ecole Privée Sainte Thérèse (maternelle-primaire)

See also

• Corbières AOC
• Communes of the Aude department

References

External links

• Lézignan-Corbières

На других языках

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- [en] Lézignan-Corbières

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[ru] Лезиньян-Корбьер

Лезинья́н-Корбье́р (фр. Lézignan-Corbières) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Лангедок — Руссильон. Департамент коммуны — Од. Административный центр кантона Лезиньян-Корбьер. Округ коммуны — Нарбонна.

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