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Le Lavandou is a commune in France, situated within the Var department and the arrondissement of Toulon. It lies in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and shares borders with Bormes-les-Mimosas, La Môle, and Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer. The administrative body is twinned with Kronberg im Taunus.
The commune has an area of 29.65 and an elevation of 485 above sea level. Population figures vary by source, with one listing 6,646 residents (2,805 male and 3,180 female) and another citing 5,902. The postal code is 83980, and the license plate code is 83. It is associated with the canton of la Crau for electoral purposes, while also being located in the canton of Collobrières.
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- Locality
- Le Lavandou
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Population
- 5,902
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Department
- Var
- Arrondissement
- Toulon
- Canton
- La Crau
- Intercommunality
- Communauté de communes Méditerranée Porte des Maures
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Gil Bernardi ( LR )
- Area
- 29.65 km (11.45 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 6,646
- Density
- 224.1/km (580.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 83070 /83980
- Elevation
- 0–485 m (0–1,591 ft) , (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Le Lavandou
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Toulon
- Population
- 6646
- Area
- 29.65
- Elevation
- 189
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer
- Official website
- www.le-lavandou.fr
- Image
- P1000662 La Maison du Lavandou.JPG
- Licence plate code
- 83
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- twinned administrative body
- Kronberg im Taunus
- Commons category
- Le Lavandou
- postal code
- 83980
- associated electoral district
- canton of la Crau
- male population
- 2805
- female population
- 3180
- P8168
- tsuzumi
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-94-05-15-70
- fax number
- +33-4-94-64-92-50
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Understand
thumb|Le Château thumb|Le Lavandou - Eglise Saint-Louis
Get in
The nearest airports are in Nice, Toulon and Marseilles.
There is no railroad near the town, but you can catch a connecting bus from Toulon (#7801, #8814) or even Saint-Raphaël (change at St. Tropez or Cogolin).
NB: The intercity buses are prone to be quite late, esp. in season, so make sure you've got plenty of time for making connecting changes.
Do
Boat links to the Hyères archipelago: Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Île du Levant.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Lavandou ( pronounced [lə lavɑ̃du]; Occitan: Lo Lavandor) is a seaside resort town and commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Le Lavandou derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public place for washing clothes).
The (then) village is where the famous popular song A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was written in the summer of 1939. The words were by Eric Maschwitz and the music by Manning Sherwin, with its title "stolen" from a story by Michael Arlen. The song had its first performance in a local bar, where the melody was played on piano by Sherwin with the help of the resident saxophonist. Maschwitz sang the words while holding a glass of wine, but nobody seemed impressed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Lavandou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.