Figeac
Figeac is a commune in the southwestern French department of Lot. Figeac is a sub-prefecture of the department.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,770 residents
- Description: commune in Lot, France
- Also known as: “Fijac”
- Postal codes: 46100 and 46100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosetta Stone and Champollion Museum.
Rosetta Stone
Work of art
Photo: Awikimate, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
Champollion Museum
Museum
Photo: Thierry46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Champollion Museum is located in Figeac, Lot, France. It houses a collection devoted to Figeac's most famous son, Jean-François Champollion. It was inaugurated 19 December 1986 in the presence of President François Mitterrand and Jean Leclant, secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Hôtel de la Monnaie
Historic building
Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hôtel de la Monnaie is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camburat and Capdenac-Gare.
Camburat
Village
Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Camburat is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. Camburat is situated 4½ km northwest of Figeac.
Capdenac-Gare
Village
Capdenac-Gare is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. The old village of Capdenac is directly west of Capdenac-Gare, across the river Lot. Capdenac-Gare is situated 5 km southeast of Figeac.
Saint-Félix
Village
Photo: Jaume, Public domain.
Saint-Félix is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. Saint-Félix is situated 7 km east of Figeac.
Figeac
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Figeac, Arrondissement of Figeac, Lot, Occitanie, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.60923° or 44° 36′ 33″ northLongitude
2.03243° or 2° 1′ 57″ eastPopulation
9,770Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)Name during the French Revolution
“Ceint-d’Eau”United Nations Location Code
FR FGAOpen location code
8FP4J25J+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 26696970OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3018506Wikidata ID
Q207614
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Figeac” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Figeac”
- Albanian: “Figeac”
- Arabic: “فيجياك”
- Aragonese: “Figeac”
- Aragonese: “Fijac”
- Armenian: “Ֆիլաժ”
- Arpitan: “Figeac”
- Asturian: “Figeac”
- Azerbaijani: “Fijak”
- Bambara: “Figeac”
- Basque: “Figeac”
- Bavarian: “Figeac”
- Belarusian: “Фіжак”
- Breton: “Fijac”
- Bulgarian: “Фижак”
- Cajun French: “Figeac”
- Catalan: “Figeac”
- Catalan: “Fijac”
- Cebuano: “Figeac”
- Chechen: “Фижак”
- Chinese: “Figeac”
- Chinese: “菲雅克”
- Corsican: “Figeac”
- Croatian: “Figeac”
- Czech: “Figeac”
- Danish: “Figeac”
- Dutch: “Figeac”
- Dutch: “Fijac”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيجياك”
- Esperanto: “Figeac”
- Esperanto: “Fijac”
- Estonian: “Figeac”
- Faroese: “Figeac”
- Finnish: “Figeac”
- French: “Figeac”
- French: “Fijac”
- Friulian: “Figeac”
- Galician: “Figeac”
- German: “Figeac”
- German: “Fijac”
- Greek: “Φιζάκ”
- Hebrew: “פיז’אק”
- Hungarian: “Figeac”
- Icelandic: “Figeac”
- Ido: “Figeac”
- Indonesian: “Figeac”
- Interlingua: “Figeac”
- Interlingue: “Figeac”
- Irish: “Figeac”
- Italian: “Figeac”
- Italian: “Fijac”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Figeac”
- Japanese: “フィジャック”
- Kabyle: “Figeac”
- Kalaallisut: “Figeac”
- Kongo: “Figeac”
- Korean: “피작”
- Kurdish: “Figeac”
- Ladin: “Figeac”
- Latin: “Figeac”
- Latin: “Figiacum”
- Latvian: “Figeac”
- Latvian: “Fižaka”
- Ligurian: “Figeac”
- Limburgan: “Figeac”
- Lithuanian: “Figeac”
- Low German: “Figeac”
- Luxembourgish: “Figeac”
- Macedonian: “Фижак”
- Mainfränkisch: “Figeac”
- Malagasy: “Figeac”
- Malay: “Figeac”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Figeac”
- Minangkabau: “Figeac”
- Narom: “Figeac”
- Neapolitan: “Figeac”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Figeac”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Figeac”
- Norwegian: “Figeac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Figeac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fijac”
- Papiamento: “Figeac”
- Persian: “فیژاک”
- Picard: “Figeac”
- Piemontese: “Figeac”
- Polish: “Figeac”
- Portuguese: “Figeac”
- Prussian: “Figeac”
- Romagnol: “Figeac”
- Romanian: “Figeac”
- Romansh: “Figeac”
- Russian: “Фижак”
- Sardinian: “Figeac”
- Scots: “Figeac”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Figeac”
- Serbian: “Figeac”
- Sicilian: “Figeac”
- Slovak: “Figeac”
- Slovenian: “Figeac”
- Spanish: “Figeac”
- Spanish: “Fijac”
- Swahili: “Figeac”
- Swedish: “Figeac”
- Swiss German: “Figeac”
- Tagalog: “Figeac”
- Tatar: “Фижак”
- Turkish: “Figeac”
- Ukrainian: “Фіжак”
- Venetian: “Figeac”
- Vietnamese: “Figeac”
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- Waray (Philippines): “Figeac”
- Welsh: “Figeac”
- Wolof: “Figeac”
- Yue Chinese: “Figeac”
- Zulu: “Figeac”
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