Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement of Forcalquier

Lurs

Lurs is a commune in the department in the region in southeastern . It is noted for the triple murder nearby of Sir Jack Drummond and his wife and daughter in 1952.
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  • Type: Village with 376 residents
  • Description: commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
  • Also known as: “04106” and “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Postal code: 04700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman Bridge of Lurs and Théâtre Marius.

Photo: Fr.Latreille, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

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is a Benedictine monastery in in the department of , . It is part of the Solesmes Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation and as such focuses on Gregorian chant. is situated 3½ km northeast of Lurs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Brillanne and Ganagobie.

Village
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is a commune in the department of in southeastern . is situated 4½ km south of Lurs.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southeastern . It is the site of a Benedictine monastery, the Abbey of Our Lady of . is situated 5 km northeast of Lurs.

Village
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is a commune in the department in Southeastern . is situated 6 km south of Lurs.

Lurs

Latitude
43.9692° or 43° 58′ 9″ north
Longitude
5.8899° or 5° 53′ 24″ east
Population
376
Elevation
574 metres (1,883 feet)
Open location code
8FM7XV9Q+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 261737328
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6425523
Wiki­data ID
Q1020326
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lurs” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lurs”
  • Albanian: “Lurs”
  • Aragonese: “Lurs”
  • Armenian: “Լյուր”
  • Arpitan: “Lurs”
  • Asturian: “Lurs”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lür”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lyur (Yuxarı Provans Alpları)”
  • Bambara: “Lurs”
  • Basque: “Lurs”
  • Bavarian: “Lurs”
  • Breton: “Lurs”
  • Buginese: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Buginese: “Lurs”
  • Cajun French: “Lurs”
  • Catalan: “Lurs”
  • Cebuano: “Lurs”
  • Chechen: “ЛуьгӀ (Лакха ПгӀовансан Альпаш)”
  • Chechen: “ЛуьгӀ”
  • Chinese: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Chinese: “Lurs”
  • Chinese: “吕尔”
  • Chinese: “呂爾”
  • Corsican: “Lurs”
  • Croatian: “Lurs”
  • Czech: “Lurs”
  • Danish: “Lurs”
  • Dutch: “Lurs”
  • Esperanto: “Lurs”
  • Estonian: “Lurs”
  • Faroese: “Lurs”
  • Finnish: “Lurs”
  • French: “Lurs”
  • Friulian: “Lurs”
  • Galician: “Lurs”
  • German: “Lurs”
  • Hungarian: “Lurs”
  • Icelandic: “Lurs”
  • Ido: “Lurs”
  • Indonesian: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Indonesian: “Lurs”
  • Interlingua: “Lurs”
  • Interlingue: “Lurs”
  • Irish: “Lurs”
  • Italian: “Lurs”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lurs”
  • Japanese: “ルルス”
  • Kabyle: “Lurs”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lurs”
  • Kongo: “Lurs”
  • Kurdish: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Ladin: “Lurs”
  • Latin: “Lurs”
  • Latvian: “Lurs”
  • Ligurian: “Lurs”
  • Limburgan: “Lurs”
  • Lithuanian: “Lurs”
  • Lombard: “Lurs”
  • Low German: “Lurs”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lurs”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Lurs”
  • Malagasy: “Lurs”
  • Malay: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Malay: “Lurs”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lurs”
  • Minangkabau: “Lurs”
  • Narom: “Lurs”
  • Neapolitan: “Lurs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lurs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lurs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lurs”
  • Papiamento: “Lurs”
  • Picard: “Lurs”
  • Piemontese: “Lurs”
  • Polish: “Lurs”
  • Portuguese: “Lurs”
  • Prussian: “Lurs”
  • Romagnol: “Lurs”
  • Romanian: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Romanian: “Lurs”
  • Romansh: “Lurs”
  • Russian: “Люр”
  • Sardinian: “Lurs”
  • Scots: “Lurs”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lurs”
  • Serbian: “Lurs”
  • Sicilian: “Lurs”
  • Slovak: “Lurs”
  • Spanish: “Lurs”
  • Swahili: “Lurs”
  • Swedish: “Lurs”
  • Swiss German: “Lurs”
  • Tatar: “Люр (Югары Прованс Альплары)”
  • Tatar: “Люр”
  • Turkish: “Lurs”
  • Ukrainian: “Люр”
  • Uzbek: “Lurs (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)”
  • Uzbek: “Lurs”
  • Venetian: “Lurs”
  • Vietnamese: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Vietnamese: “Lurs”
  • Vlaams: “Lurs”
  • Volapük: “Lurs”
  • Walloon: “Lurs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lurs”
  • Welsh: “Lurs”
  • Wolof: “Lurs”
  • Yue Chinese: “Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”
  • Zeeuws: “Lurs”
  • Zulu: “Lurs”
  • “Lurs”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Église de l’Invention-de-la-Croix de Lurs and Place des Tilleuls.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lurs”. Photo: Etienne Baudon, CC BY-SA 3.0.