Goudargues

Goudargues
Goudargues
Administration
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Nîmes
Canton	Pont-Saint-Esprit
Intercommunality	ValCezArd
Mayor	Martial Bonnefond (PR) (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	70–332 m (230–1,089 ft) (avg. 71 m or 233 ft)
Land area1	30.27 km2 (11.69 sq mi)
Population2	1,021  (2008)
- Density	34 /km2 (88 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	30131/ 30630
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.

Goudargues is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Known locally as the 'Venice Gardoise', because of the canalised watercourse that flows through it centre. This is lined with pavement cafés and shaded by a two rows of mature Plane Trees,

History

The Romans are known to have been present in the locality. In AD 800, Benedictine monks from Aniane founded an abbey around the lake of Gordanicus. This lake, near the Cèze was fed by natural springs. It was this abbey that is the basis of modern Goudargues- and the settlements name is derived from Gordanicus.

Geography

The village of Goudargues is situated in the Cèze valley, to the north of the Gard department. Not too far from Avignon, the Pont du Gard, Uzès and Nîmes.

Demographics

Historical population of Goudargues

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	637	645	612	680	788	945	1021

See also

• Communes of the Gard department

References

• INSEE
• Christian, M (1949). "Les ruines carolingiennes de Goudargues et le site militaire connexe du Castrum Planitium au pays d'Uzès" (in French). Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 93: 48–56. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1949_num_93_1_78363. Retrieved 2011-09-23.