Coustouges (; ca, Costoja) is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. Inhabitants are called Coustougiens (male) or Coustougiennes (female).

Geography

Localisation

Coustouges is located in the

canton of Le Canigou The canton of Le Canigou is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda. ...

and in the

arrondissement of Céret The arrondissement of Céret is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department ( Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 64 communes. Its population is 129,464 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes ...

. Coustouges is the second most southerly commune of mainland France, after

Lamanère Lamanère (; ca, La Menera) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the southernmost village of Continental France. Geography Lamanère is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissemen ...

. The village is situated at an altitude of 832 m. Map commune FR insee code 66061

Toponymy

Coustouges was previously recorded with the name ''Costogia'' in 936, ''Custajas'' or ''Costogia'', and finally ''Coustouges'' (end of the 19th century).

History

Coustouges was a dependency of the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech from 988 until the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...

Population

Notable people

Francesc Sabaté Llopart Francesc () is a masculine given name of Catalan origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francesco, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Cesc Fàbregas (Francesc Fàbregas i Soler) (born 1987), Spanish professional football ...

(1915-1960), anarchist, anti-

Francoist Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

maquisard, spent several years in Coustouges *

François Pinault François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis. Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public in ...

, French

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

, bought a house there in September 2004.

Images

File:Coustouges 2010 05.jpg, Church of Notre-Dame de l’Aubépine File:Coustouges 2010 01.jpg, Tomb of an old family File:Coustouges_1.jpg, View of the church from the square File:Coustouges 2010 14.jpg, Typical street name plaque in Coustouges

References

External links

Official Coustouges website
Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub