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- Locality
- Mons
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,224
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Haute-Garonne
- Arrondissement
- Toulouse
- Canton
- Toulouse-10
- Intercommunality
- Toulouse Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Véronique Doittau
- Area
- 7.32 km (2.83 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,861
- Density
- 254/km (658/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 31355 /31280
- Elevation
- 151–233 m (495–764 ft) , (avg. 150 m or 490 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Mons
- Population
- 1861
- Area
- 7.32
- Elevation
- 195
- Official website
- www.mairie-mons.com
- Image
- Mons31 mairie eg.JPG
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- Commons category
- Mons (Haute-Garonne)
- postal code
- 31280
- male population
- 910
- female population
- 870
- P8168
- Gerhard Müller
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-61-83-63-66
- contact page URL
- mairie-mons.com/contact
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Travel guide
Understand
Mons was the European Capital of Culture in 2015, together with Plzeň in the Czech Republic. Mons city government website
Get in
thumb|right|Screen door of the Mons Royal Theate
Get around
A free shuttle service runs between 07:00 and 21:00. The shuttles run along three circuits, all of which terminate at the train station Gare B. All run past Sainte Waudru and the Grand Place.
Sleep
thumb|right|The belfry thumb|right|Mons seen from the countryside
Go next
The historic town of Nimy is a few kilometers to the north up the N6. The Grand-Large Marina is close to the Imagipark amusement park, and is a good place to start a canal tour of the local waterways. The MAC's in Grand-Hornu (via TEC Bus lines 7 and 9) is a beautiful museum in a superb historic industrial coal site. Visit also the places near Grand-Hornu where Vincent Van Gogh lived. Cambron-Casteau — home to Pairi Daiza, a popular animal park north of Mons on the way to Ath.
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Mons ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃s] ; Occitan: Monts) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department of southwestern France on the edge of the Pyrénées.
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