Official website (https://www.castries.fr/)
OverviewAI-generated
Castries is a commune in France, situated within the Hérault department and the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. It serves as the capital of the canton of Castries and is located in the Occitanie region. The town has a population of 6,883, comprising 2,953 males and 3,225 females. Its residents are known as Castriotes.
The administrative area covers 24.05 square kilometers and shares borders with Montaud, Baillargues, Guzargues, and Saint-Brès. The elevation above sea level is recorded as 154 meters. Castries is twinned with Volpiano. The official postal code is 34160, and the associated electoral district is the canton of Le Crès.
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Place details
- Locality
- Castries
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 5,790
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Hérault
- Arrondissement
- Montpellier
- Canton
- Le Crès
- Intercommunality
- Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Claudine Vassas Mejri
- Area
- 24.05 km (9.29 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 6,883
- Density
- 286.2/km (741.2/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Castriotes
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 34058 /34160
- Elevation
- 20–154 m (66–505 ft) , (avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
- Website
- www .castries .fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Accueil | Castries
Bienvenue sur le site de la ville de Castries, commune héraultaise de 6500 habitants.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Castries
- Demonym
- Castriotes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
- Population
- 6883
- Area
- 24.05
- Elevation
- 62
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- canton of Castries
- Shares border with
- Teyran
- Official website
- www.castries.fr
- Image
- Castries (35).jpg
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- Commons category
- Castries (Hérault)
- postal code
- 34160
- twinned administrative body
- Volpiano
- associated electoral district
- canton of Le Crès
- male population
- 2953
- female population
- 3225
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-67-91-28-50
- fax number
- +33-4-67-91-28-51
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Understand
There is a tourist information office a 15-minute walk from the town centre in the cruise ship dock at Pointe Seraphine.
Free maps are available from the information desk in the La Place Carenage mall on Jeremie Street, just along from the St.Lucia Fire Service building.
Do
Wander around the lively local market on Jeremie Street. Visit the viewing point over the harbour, at Morne Fortune, just below Government House. Relax in Derek Walcott Square. Top up your suntan on Vigie beach. Cricket is played at Mindoo Phillip Park, but first class matches are at the Daren Sammy Ground in Gros Islet.
Buy
There are duty-free shops in Pointe Seraphine, where the cruise ships dock, and also in La Place Carenage mall on Jeremie Street.
For more local goods, the busy market on Jeremie Street is worth a visit.
Eat
There are cheap local eateries in a small alley that runs alongside the market and down to Jeremie Street.
A friendly and cheap cafe selling local food is on the first floor of a building on Derek Walcott square.
Go next
Take a bus or taxi to Marigot Bay, where the 1967 film Dr. Doolittle was filmed.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Castries ( French pronunciation: [kastʁi] ; Occitan: Càstrias) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
lMap A wood called Les Pins
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castries” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.