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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Gard
- Arrondissement
- Alès
- Canton
- Alès-2
- Intercommunality
- Alès Agglomération
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Gérard Banquet
- Area
- 15.94 km (6.15 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,813
- Density
- 113.7/km (294.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 30173 /30340
- Elevation
- 129–281 m (423–922 ft) , (avg. 179 m or 587 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Mons
- Population
- 1789
- Area
- 15.94
- Elevation
- 182
- Official website
- www.mairiedemons.fr
- Image
- Mons - Place de la Mairie - Mairie.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mons (Gard)
- postal code
- 30340
- male population
- 823
- female population
- 854
- P8168
- Rudolf von Tavel
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-66-83-10-74
- fax number
- +33-4-66-83-74-95
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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.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Mons ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃s] ; Occitan: Monts) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
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