Bagnols-sur-Cèze

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Coordinates: 44°05′30″N 4°21′57″E / 44.0917, 4.3659

Administration
Commune of Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Location

Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Nîmes
Canton	Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Rhône Cèze Languedoc
Mayor	René Cret (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	30 m–268 m (avg. 47 m)
Land area^¹	31.37 km²
Population^² (1999)	18,103
- Density	577.1/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	30028/ 30200
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.

Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Occitan: Banhòus de Céser) is a French town and commune of 18,761 inhabitants in the Gard département in the Languedoc-Roussillon région.

A small regional center, Bagnols-sur-Cèze was quite certainly a Roman town (the name of the town comes from the Latin balnearius meaning baths) before the main part was built in the 13th century around a central arcaded square that is still preserved today. At the same period, the regional market was installed here, undoubtedly contributing to its expansion.

The old center of Bagnols-sur-Cèze retains its historic feel, with small streets and largely preservered architecture. Several facades are remarkable. The towns contains a notable museum of contemporary art, the Musée Albert-André, founded in 1868 as well as an archaeological museum with a collection of artifacts found mainly in nearby Roman sites.

It is twinned with the town of Newbury in the United Kingdom.