Coursan (; oc, Corçan) is a
commune in the
Aude
Aude (; ) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it " Cathar Country" (French: ''Pays cathare'') after a group of religious dissidents active i ...
department in southern France.
Coursan station has rail connections to Narbonne, Béziers and Montpellier.
It is 7 km from
Narbonne
Narbonne (, also , ; oc, Narbona ; la, Narbo ; Late Latin:) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is located about from the shores of the M ...
on the river
Aude
Aude (; ) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it " Cathar Country" (French: ''Pays cathare'') after a group of religious dissidents active i ...
. There is a bridge built in the fifteenth century, over which passes the RN9 road. The town has a church from the same period which is in the course of being restored.
Composer
Henry Fourès was born in Coursan (17 May 1948)
Population
See also
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Communes of the Aude department
The following is a list of the 433 communes of the Aude department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[List of medieval bridges in France
The list of medieval bridges in France comprises all bridges built between 500 and 1500 AD in what is today France, that is including regions which were not part of the country in the Middle Ages, such as Burgundy, Alsace, Lorraine and Savoie. ...]
References
External links
Official site
Communes of Aude
Aude communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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