Salies-de-Béarn

Salies-de-Béarn
Commune
Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Salies-de-Béarn
Salies-de-Béarn Salies-de-Béarn
Coordinates: 43°28′16″N 0°55′30″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel
Intercommunality	Salies-de-Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Lucien Basse-Cathalinat
Area 1	52.08 km2 (20.11 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	4,545
• Density	87/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64499 /64270
Elevation	28–202 m (92–663 ft) (avg. 56 m or 184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Salies-de-Béarn (Template:Lang-oc) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.

Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Bearn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944.

Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The Summer of Katya. In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

• INSEE commune file