Sorède

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Coordinates: 42°31′53″N 2°57′27″E / 42.5313888889, 2.9575

Commune of Sorède
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Céret
Canton	Argelès-sur-Mer
Intercommunality	Communauté des Communes des Albères
Mayor	Yves Porteix (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	42 m–1,241 m (avg. 80 m)
Land area¹	34.54 km²
Population² (1999)	2,699
- Density	78/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	66196/ 66690
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.

Sorède (Catalan: Sureda) is a French commune in the departement of Pyrenées-Orientales.

Contents 1 Administration 2 Population 3 Sights and Monuments 4 Notable people who lived in Sorède

[edit] Administration

List of mayors

Period	Identity	Party	Quality
1966 - 1989	André Cavaillé
Since 1989	Yves Porteix	UDF/MoDem	Mayor & Vice-president of the Community of Communes
Other names are not yet known.

[edit] Population

1962: 1,138

1968: 1,164

1975: 1,491

1982: 1,896

1990: 2,160

1999: 2,699

[edit] Sights and Monuments

• The main church "St Assiscle et Ste Victoire", 14th century choir, 17th century Baroque sculptures.
• Notre-Dame du Château, an 18th century sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the mountains, and the ruins of the castle of Ultrera, dating from the early Middle Ages.
• Saint Martin de Lavail, a 9th century Romanesque chapel.

[edit] Notable people who lived in Sorède

• Father Antonio Gomes, known as « Padre Himalaya », a Portuguese scientist and priest who experimented one of the first solar ovens in Sorède in 1900.