Alénya

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Coordinates: 42°38′27″N 2°58′57″E / 42.6408333333, 2.9825

Administration
Commune of Alénya
Location

Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	La Côte Radieuse
Mayor	Jacques Pumareda (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	3 m–18 m (avg. 5 m)
Land area^¹	5.34 km²
Population^² (1999)	2,318
- Density	434/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	66002/ 66200
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Alénya is a village of about 3000 inhabitants in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of southwestern France.

The village is surrounded by wine fields. Apricot and peach are also grown here.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Demographics
4 References

[edit] History

Alénya was first inhabited by the Celts and was conquered by the Romans in c. 121 BC. It was first mentioned in 904 in a document mentioning towns on the Elne.

Before 1214 Alénya was only a small hamlet with little importance. That was the year its first church was built. A second church which still stands today was built in 1593. Among its attractions is a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century.^[1]

[edit] Geography

Alénya covers an area of 5.34 km², with 434 inhabitants per km². It is located about 10 km from Perpignan and borders the municipalities of Saint-Nazaire en Roussillon, Canet-en-Roussillon, Saint-Cyprien, Elne, Corneilla del Vercol, Théza, and Saleilles. Alénya has a Mediterranean climate.