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Artigue

Artigue (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

Name

The pre-Latin word artica gave rise to the Gascon word artiga, a term which designates land cleared to make it cultivable.

In Occitan, the town is called Artiga.

Geography

The commune of Artigue is located in the Haute-Garonne department, in the Occitanie, and borders Spain (Catalonia).

It is 109 km as the crow flies from Toulouse, the department's prefecture, 32 km from Saint-Gaudens, the sub-prefecture, and 5 km from Bagnères-de-Luchon, the central office for the canton of Bagnères-de-Luchon, on which the commune has depended for departmental elections since 2015. The commune is also part of the greater Bagnères-de-Luchon area.

The nearest communes are: Salles-et-Pratviel (1.2 km), Antignac (1.7 km), Sode (1.8 km), Moustajon (2.7 km), Gouaux-de-Luchon (2.7 km), Juzet-de-Luchon (2.7 km), Cier-de-Luchon (3.3 km), and Baren (4.1 km).

Historically and culturally, Artigue is part of the Comminges region, corresponding to the former County of Comminges, a district of the province of Gascony located in the present-day departments of Gers, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, and Ariège.

Artigue borders three other French communes and, to the east, two Spanish municipalities. These neighboring municipalities are Bausen, Gouaux-de-Luchon, Les, Salles-et-Pratviel, and Sode.

Local culture and heritage

Population

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