Leucate (; oc, Leucata) 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 Aude department in southern

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. It lies between the

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and the lagoon

Étang de Leucate Étang de Leucate or 'Étang de Salses is a lake in Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude, France. At an elevation of 0 m, its surface area is 54 km2. It has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2017. File:Étang de Salses-Leucate 01.jp ...

Geography

Port Leucate (Aude), Oasis, plage naturiste 08-01

Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corbières Massif, which are called the Corbières maritimes. It is around south of

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 ...

, and around north of Perpignan. On a clear day, the

Phare du Cap Leucate The Phare du Cap Leucate is a lighthouse situated on the , located in the south-eastern part of the in the French Department Aude on the territory of the commune of Leucate. It was constructed in 1950 and illuminated in 1951. It is an automatic b ...

offers a view over the French Mediterranean Sea from the Spanish border to the south to the

Camargue Camargue (, also , , ; oc, label= Provençal, Camarga) is a region of France located south of Arles, between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône delta. The eastern arm is called the ''Grand Rhône''; the western one is the '' ...

to the east.

Population

Urban Morphology

The town stretches over five tourist attractions, from north to south: * La Franqui, * Leucate village, * Leucate beach (Leucate plage) * The

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village (Village naturiste) on the island of Correggio * Port-Leucate.

Personalities

* Henry de Monfreid, adventurer and author *

Françoise de Cezelli Françoise de Cezelly (1558 – 16 October 1615) was a French war hero during the French Wars of Religion. She distinguished herself when the village of Leucate was besieged by Spanish forces allied with the Catholic League in 1590, after her husb ...

(1558–1615)

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and French female war hero *

André Héléna André Héléna (8 April 1919 - 18 November 1972) was a French writer who spent most of his life in Leucate (southern France) on the mediterranean coast. He was born in Narbonne and died at Leucate, aged 53. Bibliography *''Les flics ont toujours ...

(1919–1972) author *

Jacques Hiron Jacques Hiron (born 1946) is a former merchant turned journalist, and writer of popular science, fiction and graphic novels. He lives in Leucate Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies betwee ...

author (fiction, comics, regional & local history and geography) * Christophe Neff geographer

Sources

* Nöel Hautemanière and Jacques Hiron: ''Leucate : plein cadre; livre de photographies''. Toreilles, 2004, . * Christophe Neff: ''Kulturlandschaftswandel, Fremdenverkehr und Biodiversität auf der Halbinsel Leucate (Dept. Aude / Frankreich).'' In: ''Fremdenverkehrsgebiete des Mittelmeerraumes im Umbruch. Beiträge der Tagung des Arbeitskreises "Geographische Mittelmeerländer-Forschung“ vom 11.-13. Oktober 1996 in Regensburg.'' Regensburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 27, S. 99-135, Regensburg, 1998, * Christophe Neff : ''Observation géographiques et floristiques sur la presqu'île de Leucate''. In: Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nîmes et Gard, T. 62, 1999, 23-34. * Christophe Neff and Peter Frankenberg : ''Reflexions géobotaniques sur les plantes échappees de jardins: L´example de Euphorbia dendroides et d´autres espèces ornementales dans la région de Leucate et dans les Corbières maritimes (Aude, France)''. In : Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nîmes et Gard, T. 63, 2001, 7- 10. * Christophe Neff : ''Les Corbières maritimes – forment-elles un étage de végétation méditerranéenne thermophile masqué par la pression humaine ?'' In: Eric Fouache (Edit.): ''The Mediterranean World Environment and History. IAG Working Group on Geo-archeology, Symposium Proceedings. Environmental Dynamics and History in Mediterranean Areas, Paris, Université de Paris – Sorbonne 24 – 26 avril 2002''. Paris, 2003, 191 – 202, (Elsevier France, ).

References

External links

Leucate.net
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