Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Coat of arms

Location of Fontvieille

(2020–2026) Gérard Garnier^[1]Area

40.18 km² (15.51 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,521 • Density88/km² (230/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

13038 /13990

Elevation0–245 m (0–804 ft)
(avg. 20 m or 66 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontvieille (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃vjɛj]; Occitan: Fòntvielha) is a commune in the camargue region in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

History

The commune was created in 1790, out of the territory of Arles.

The Occitan language poet Brémonde de Tarascon (1858–98) grew up on the Darbousille farm at Fontvieille, where she died.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,613	—
1800	1,900	+2.37%
1806	1,728	−1.57%
1821	2,044	+1.13%
1831	2,056	+0.06%
1836	2,165	+1.04%
1841	2,142	−0.21%
1846	2,402	+2.32%
1851	2,492	+0.74%
1856	2,479	−0.10%
1861	2,788	+2.38%
1866	3,248	+3.10%
1872	2,566	−3.85%
1876	2,565	−0.01%
1881	2,596	+0.24%
1886	2,840	+1.81%
1891	2,591	−1.82%
1896	2,541	−0.39%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	2,515	−0.21%
1906	2,252	−2.18%
1911	2,104	−1.35%
1921	2,027	−0.37%
1926	2,057	+0.29%
1931	2,079	+0.21%
1936	2,079	+0.00%
1946	2,064	−0.07%
1954	2,244	+1.05%
1962	2,388	+0.78%
1968	2,440	+0.36%
1975	2,935	+2.67%
1982	3,374	+2.01%
1990	3,642	+0.96%
1999	3,431	−0.66%
2007	3,472	+0.15%
2012	3,653	+1.02%
2017	3,591	−0.34%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Sights

Alphonse Daudet's windmill
Barbegal aqueduct and mill, a Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune

Twin towns

Fontvieille is twinned with Santa Maria a Monte, Italy, since 1991.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Brémonde de Tarascon (1858-1898), poétesse provençale", GénéProvence (in French), 10 December 2008, retrieved 13 November 2017
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Fontvieille, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE