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La Ciotat is a commune and port city in France, situated in the Bouches-du-Rhône department within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It serves as the capital of the canton of la Ciotat and is part of the arrondissement of Marseille and the Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence. The municipality borders Cassis, Ceyreste, La Cadière-d'Azur, and Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, and is located on the Mediterranean Sea.
The area covers 31.46 square kilometers with an elevation above sea level of 388 meters. Its population is recorded as 38,477, comprising 16,637 males and 18,537 females. The postal code for the region is 13600. La Ciotat is twinned with the administrative bodies of Singen and Torre Annunziata.
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Place details
- Locality
- La Ciotat
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Population
- 33,113
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- port city
- Official name
- La Ciotat
- Demonym
- Ciotadens
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence
- Population
- 38477
- Area
- 31.46
- Elevation
- 96
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Cassis
- Official website
- www.laciotat.com
- Image
- La Ciotat (9423304566).jpg
- Licence plate code
- 13
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- topic's main category
- Category:La Ciotat
- Commons category
- La Ciotat
- postal code
- 13600
- twinned administrative body
- Torre Annunziata
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in La Ciotat
- located in/on physical feature
- Mediterranean Sea
- associated electoral district
- canton of la Ciotat
- male population
- 16637
- female population
- 18537
- P8168
- high-voltage switch
- category for people born here
- Q98153122
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- contact page URL
- www.laciotat.com/contact-mairie
- phone number
- +33-4-42-08-88-00
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1120959
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Travel guide
Understand
La Ciotat is halfway between Marseille and Toulon. A former shipbuilding centre, now it is a nice resort. It is often associated with Lumière Brothers and their first films.
Get around
There are plenty of buses in La Ciotat, to the railway station north of the town, and to the neighbouring town of Ceyreste. Maps and timetables can be found at bus stops and at the Tourist Office.
See
thumb|Eden Theatre thumb|Cinema Lumière
Do
thumb|A calanque at the South of Parc du Mugel
Connect
As of July 2023, La Ciotat and it approach roads have 5G from all French carriers.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
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La Ciotat (French: [la sjɔta]; Provençal: La Ciutat [la sjewˈta], lit. 'The City') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. It is the southeasternmost commune of the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis. La Ciotat is located at about 25 km (15.5 mi) to the east of Marseille, at an equal distance from Toulon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Ciotat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.