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Largentière L'Argentièira (Occitan) | |
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 The castle in Largentière | |
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  Largentière  Largentière | |
| Coordinates:44°32′37″N4°17′39″E / 44.5436°N 4.2942°E /44.5436; 4.2942 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Ardèche |
| Arrondissement | Largentière |
| Canton | Vallon-Pont-d'Arc |
| Intercommunality | CC Val de Ligne |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Jean-Roger Durand[1] |
Area 1 | 7.22 km2 (2.79 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 1,496 |
| • Density | 207/km2 (537/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Largentiérois |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 07132 /07710 |
| Elevation | 147–420 m (482–1,378 ft) |
| Website | www |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Largentière (French pronunciation:[laʁʒɑ̃tjɛʁ]ⓘ;Occitan:L'Argentièira) is asubprefecture andcommune of theArdèchedepartment in theAuvergne-Rhône-Alpesregion inSouthern France.
It is located in the narrow valley of theLigne, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest ofAubenas. With a population of 1,573 as of 2020, Largentière is the second-least populated subprefecture in France afterCastellane inAlpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Its name, adopted in the 13th century in place of its more ancient nameSegualeriae (Ségualières), refers to the silver mines in the area between the 10th and 15th centuries, when the silver-bearing lead ores in intrusive veins in the Largentières sandstone[3] were exploited under the authority of theCounts of Toulouse and theBishops of Viviers, whose titleBarons de Largentière was linked to the bishopric.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 2,888 | — |
| 1975 | 2,671 | −1.11% |
| 1982 | 2,373 | −1.68% |
| 1990 | 1,990 | −2.18% |
| 1999 | 1,942 | −0.27% |
| 2009 | 1,814 | −0.68% |
| 2014 | 1,734 | −0.90% |
| 2020 | 1,573 | −1.61% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
A busy industrial town in the nineteenth century, when it housed silk mills,[5] its principal industry is nowtourism. Its only railroad station was demolished in 1982, leaving the town accessible only by road.
Besides its twelfth- to fifteenth-centurychâteau, the town conserves its thirteenth-century church, Nôtre-Dame-des-Pommiers,[6] its Renaissancehôtel de ville, itspalais de justice, and theTour Argentière that collected the mines' produce for guarded transport.
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