Location of Landes on a map of France Benquet is a commune of France, located in the département, of Landes (40), in the region of Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are called Benquetois. Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...
France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...
Capital Bordeaux Area 41,309 km² Regional President Alain Rousset ( PS) (since 1998) Population - 2004 estimate - 1999 census - Density (Ranked 6th) 3,049,000 2,908,359 74/km² (2004) Arrondissements 18 Cantons 235 Communes 2,296 Départements Dordogne Gironde Landes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques Aquitaine...
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Landes is a département in southern France. ...
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The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Landes is a département in southern France. ...
Capital Bordeaux Area 41,309 km² Regional President Alain Rousset ( PS) (since 1998) Population - 2004 estimate - 1999 census - Density (Ranked 6th) 3,049,000 2,908,359 74/km² (2004) Arrondissements 18 Cantons 235 Communes 2,296 Départements Dordogne Gironde Landes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques Aquitaine...
Geography
Benquet is 5 miles South of the préfecture city of Mont-de-Marsan, at the confines of the great Landes pine-tree forest (the biggest in Europe) and of the agricultural region of Chalosse. It is 55 miles from the Atlantic ocean. In France, a préfecture is the capital city of a département. ...
Mont-de-Marsan is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Landes département. ...
Its neighbor cities are : Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Bretagne-de-Marsan, Saint Maurice-sur-Adour, Saint-Sever, Bas-Mauco, Haut-Mauco
History Benquet, belonging to the former royal province of Gascony, was under the rule of the abbey of Saint Sever. Jehan Bernard de Benquet, vassal of the prince of Navarre, had the title of Sénéchal of Marsan and of Gabardan. Fights with French Huguenots are reported here. Gascony (French: Gascogne, pronounced ; Gascon: Gasconha, pronounced ) is an area of southwest France that constituted a royal province prior to the French Revolution. ...
Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community and province of Spain. ...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. ...
Economy Mostly corn-growing, breeding (ducks, geese), foie-gras making. Agri-foodstuff research center.
Twin cities Benquet is the twin village of Muespach-le-Haut, on the German border. As a matter of fact, population from Alsace flew their region and found shelter in South-Western France when the Nazi troops came in in the early stages of WWII. Capital Strasbourg Land area¹ 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Population - Jan. ...
German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...
Places and monuments Churches St John the Baptist (XIX° century) and Saint Christau (XI° century). Benquet is a stopover on the midieval pilgrimage route to Santiago Compostela (route of Vézelay). Benquet boasts a beautiful privately-owned château and a "miraculous" spring, close to the church of St Christau. John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer or John the Dipper) is regarded as a prophet by at least three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeanism. ...
St James the Moor Slayer. ...
Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. ...
Personalities linked with the village King Henri IV had an élégant home in Benquet : the Château-Vieux lodge (no longer exists). Jump to: navigation, search Henry IV (French: Henri IV) (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), called the Great (French: le Grand), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until 1610. ...
Religion & Language People are mostly catholic. The official language is French. The Gascon language is still spoken by some elderly people on some occasions. The Gascon language is an Occitan dialect mostly spoken in Gascony (in the French départements of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, a part of Lot-et-Garonne, a part of Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège), and in the small Spanish...
Recreational activities Hunting (woodcocks, pheasants...) and fishing are very popular + walking (pilgrims to Santiago are still to be met), cycling, basketball playing.
Events Music Festival Atout Choeurs : early may
Fair of Benquet : early july
Miscelaneous - Communes of the Landes département
The following is a list of the 331 communes of the Landes département of France. ...
External links - Site the village of Benquet (in French)
- Site of the Roitelets basketballclub (in French)
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