Langon (; ) is a commune in the

Gironde Gironde ( , US usually , ; , ) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749.

department in

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...

in southwestern

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. Langon serves as the seat of its district, canton and subprefecture. Its inhabitants are called ''Langonnais'' and ''Langonnaise''.

Geography

Langon is in the southern part of the department southeast of

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

on the left bank of the

Garonne The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ; or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux � ...

river. It lies within the wine-growing region of the Graves near the border with the forest of the Landes.

Population

Notable people born in Langon

* Louis Beaulieu (1840–1866), catholic priest, martyr in Korea * Thomas Boudat * Caroline Delas *

Louis Ducos du Hauron Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (8 December 1837 – 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography. Personal life He was born in Langon, Gironde and died in Agen. Photography After writing an unpublished paper setting forth his basic ...

* Benjamin Fall *

Martine Faure Martine Faure (born 30 September 1948) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Gironde department, as a member of the Socialist Party. She was the deputy for Gironde's 9th constituency from 2007 to 2012 and, af ...

* Édouard Lafargue *

Pierre de La Montagne Pierre de La Montagne (1755, Langon – c. 1825) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, poet and translator. Prior to the French Revolution, the baron of La Montagne was correspondent of the Museum of Bordeaux then a member of the . From ...

Pierre Lees-Melou Pierre Lees-Melou (born 25 May 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for club Brest. Career Dijon Born in Langon, Gironde, Lees-Melou started his career with in the Championnat de France Amateur 2 befo ...

* David Martimort, economist * Raymond Oliver * Sandrine Revel * Jean Sentuary * Patrick Zygmanowski (born in 1970), classical pianist

Transport

Traditionally it was a stop on the Bordeaux-

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

route; the city is now served by the Entre-Deux-Mers autoroute. ( A62 Bordeaux-Toulouse).

Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit

Langon is also a pivotal point in the Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit, the waterway and road route constructed to allow the transportation of the fuselage sections and wings of the Airbus A380 airliner to the final assembly point in Toulouse. These components were brought to Langon by barge, where they were transferred at a specially constructed dock to outsize road vehicles. File:Langon 33 Aile Airbus 01.jpg, Barge at the quay File:Langon 33 Aile Airbus 02.jpg, Wing leaving the quay File:Langon 33 Aile Airbus 03.jpg, Transfer to holding compound These then proceeded in convoy via an indirect southerly route to Toulouse. The imposing crane just downstream of the Airbus quay was built by EDF in 1986 to handle materials for the construction of the nuclear power station at Golfech near

Agen Agen (, , ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. In 2021, the commune had a population of 32,485. Geography The city of Agen l ...

. It is still used to handle heavy electrical distribution items such as transformers.Une seconde vie à la grue
de Golfech à Langon ('' Sud Ouest'' - in French) File:Langon Grue Airbus.jpg, The EDF crane File:Langon - Itinéraire à grand gabarit - 2021 - transformers - 02.jpg, Transformers unloaded

Rail

Langon station has rail connections (

TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the regional rail network serving the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Aquitaine, TE ...

) to Bordeaux,

Marmande Marmande (; in Occitan language, Occitan, ''Marmanda'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Lot-et-Garonne ''Departments of France, département'' in south-western France. Geography Marmande is located 35 km north-west of Agen, on the ...

and Agen.

Bus

Buses at Langon are operated under the banner of the Nouvelle Aquitaine regional transport authority. Their website for buses in the area is https://transports.nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/cars-regionaux/reseau-et-horaires/gironde Route / Line 501 connects Langon with Bordeaux along the D10 road, via Cadillac-sur-Garonne, Langoiran and Cambes, on the opposite bank of the river to the railway. Routes 511 and 512 serve villages to the south and southeast.

Sights

* Château de Respide * Château de Roquetaillade