Montbolo

Commune in Occitania, France

Montbolo Montboló
Commune
The road into Montbolo
Coat of arms
Location of Montbolo
(2023–2026)		Marie-Josée Macabies^[1]
Area ¹	21.98 km² (8.49 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	177
• Density	8.1/km² (21/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66113 /66110
Elevation	240–1,323 m (787–4,341 ft) (avg. 576 m or 1,890 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montbolo (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃bɔlo] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Montboló) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localization

Montbolo is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Geology

Montbolo once had gypsum mines, used for making plaster, and also lutite and dolomite. A landslide in a gypsum stone-pit in Montbolo occurred on 20 March 1886 and killed three workers.^[3]

Population

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	124	—
1975	92	−4.17%
1982	105	+1.91%
1990	133	+3.00%
1999	145	+0.96%
2007	192	+3.57%
2012	186	−0.63%
2017	180	−0.65%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Sites of interest

The Saint-Andrew church of Montbolo was first built in the 12th century and then modified in the 13th, 14th and 17th centuries. At the end of the 19th century, works started for a full repair of the church, but the new roof was entirely destroyed following a storm in January 1900.^[5] Other repairs have been made more recently, such as the rebuild of the portal, which destroyed some of the older elements.^[6]

Montbolo has two dolmens: the Caixa de Rotllan, on the city limit with Arles-sur-Tech and the dolmen de Formentera.

Saint-Andrew church
Caixa de Rotllan

Culture

Poetry

Confidences d'un moutard parisien (1912) is a poem by the writer Marc Anfossi^[7] which mentions Montbolo, Palalda and Montalba-d'Amélie.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 30 November 2023.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Accident à Montbolo en 1886, 4 february 2014
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Tempête dans le Haut-Vallespir, 10 janvier 1900, 2 february 2014
^ Marcel Durliat, Roussillon Roman, Zodiaque, 1986
^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas (24 June 2015). "Ode aux environs d'Amélie-les-Bains en 1912". Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales (in French). Retrieved 20 July 2017.