Cransac

Cransac
Commune
The thermal baths

Coat of arms
Cransac
Location within Occitanie region
Cransac
Coordinates: 44°31′33″N 2°17′07″E / 44.5258°N 2.2853°E / 44.5258; 2.2853Coordinates: 44°31′33″N 2°17′07″E / 44.5258°N 2.2853°E / 44.5258; 2.2853
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Aveyron
Arrondissement Villefranche-de-Rouergue
Canton Enne et Alzou
Intercommunality Bassin de Decazeville Aubin
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean Paul Linol
Area1 6.91 km2 (2.67 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 1,681
 • Density 240/km2 (630/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 12083 /12110
Elevation 274–470 m (899–1,542 ft)
(avg. 277 m or 909 ft)

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

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

Cransac is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.

The town was a coal-mining centre until the mine closed in 1962. [1] Cransac has mineral springs, known in the middle ages. There are iron-mines in the neighbourhood. Hills to the north of the town contain disused coal-mines which have been on fire for centuries. About 8 kilometres (8,000 m) to the south is the fine Renaissance château of Bournazel, built for the most part by Jean de Buisson, baron of Bournazel, about 1545. The barony of Bournazel became a marquisate in 1624.[2]

Smoke escaping from the "Burning Mountain"

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19622,356—    
19683,244+37.7%
19752,870−11.5%
19822,520−12.2%
19902,180−13.5%
19991,821−16.5%
20081,681−7.7%

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Burning Mountain". Experience (my) France. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  2. ↑  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cransac". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 378.
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