Occitanie
Tarn
Arrondissement of Castres

Castres

Castres is the sole subprefecture of the department in the region in Southern France. It lies in the former province of Languedoc, although not in the former region of .
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  • Type: Town with 42,700 residents
  • Description: commune in Tarn, France
  • Also known as: “81065” and “Castras”
  • Postal code: 81100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castres station and Goya Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Pataespana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castres is a railway station in Castres, , . It is on the Toulouse–Mazamet railway line. The station is served by TER services operated by the . All trains have to stop at the station as it is a drive-in–reverse-out station.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in Castres, . The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya since it has been specialised in hispanic art, since 1947.

Stadium
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, formerly known as Stade Pierre-Antoine, is a multi-purpose stadium in Castres, . It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and is the home stadium of Castres Olympique.

Castres

Latitude
43.6054° or 43° 36′ 19″ north
Longitude
2.2411° or 2° 14′ 28″ east
Population
42,700
Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)
Open location code
8FM4J64R+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691633
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6451369
Wiki­data ID
Q188776
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Castres” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Castres”
  • Albanian: “Castres”
  • Arabic: “كاستر”
  • Aragonese: “Castras”
  • Aragonese: “Castres”
  • Armenian: “Կաստր”
  • Arpitan: “Castres”
  • Asturian: “Castres”
  • Bambara: “Castres”
  • Basque: “Castres”
  • Bavarian: “Castres”
  • Belarusian: “Кастр”
  • Breton: “Castras”
  • Cajun French: “Castres”
  • Catalan: “Castras”
  • Catalan: “Castres”
  • Catalan: “Castresa”
  • Catalan: “Castresos”
  • Catalan: “Vilagodu”
  • Catalan: “Villa Gothorum”
  • Cebuano: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Cebuano: “Castres”
  • Chechen: “КастгӀ”
  • Chinese: “Castres”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特尔”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特爾”
  • Chuvash: “Кастр”
  • Corsican: “Castres”
  • Croatian: “Castres”
  • Czech: “Castres”
  • Dagbani: “Castres”
  • Danish: “Castres”
  • Dutch: “Castres (Tarn)”
  • Dutch: “Castres-en-Albigeois”
  • Dutch: “Castres”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاستر”
  • Esperanto: “Castres”
  • Estonian: “Castres”
  • Faroese: “Castres”
  • Finnish: “Castres”
  • French: “Castres-en-Albigeois”
  • French: “Castres”
  • French: “Mandoul”
  • Friulian: “Castres”
  • Galician: “Castras”
  • Galician: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Galician: “Castres”
  • German: “Castres”
  • Greek: “Καστρ”
  • Hebrew: “קאסטר”
  • Hungarian: “Castres”
  • Icelandic: “Castres”
  • Ido: “Castres”
  • Indonesian: “Castres”
  • Interlingua: “Castres”
  • Interlingue: “Castres”
  • Irish: “Castres”
  • Italian: “Castres”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Castres”
  • Japanese: “カストル”
  • Kabyle: “Castres”
  • Kalaallisut: “Castres”
  • Kongo: “Castres”
  • Korean: “카스트르”
  • Ladin: “Castres”
  • Latin: “Castra Albigensium”
  • Latin: “Castres”
  • Latvian: “Castres”
  • Ligurian: “Castres”
  • Limburgan: “Castres”
  • Lithuanian: “Castres”
  • Low German: “Castres”
  • Luxembourgish: “Castres”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Castres”
  • Malagasy: “Castres”
  • Malay: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Malay: “Castres”
  • Mazanderani: “کستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Castres”
  • Minangkabau: “Castres”
  • Narom: “Castres”
  • Neapolitan: “Castres”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castres”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Castres”
  • Norwegian: “Castres”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Castras”
  • Papiamento: “Castres”
  • Persian: “کستر”
  • Picard: “Castres”
  • Piemontese: “Castres”
  • Polish: “Castres”
  • Portuguese: “Castres”
  • Prussian: “Castres”
  • Romagnol: “Castres”
  • Romanian: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Romanian: “Castres”
  • Romansh: “Castres”
  • Russian: “Кастр”
  • Russian: “Кастрас”
  • Sardinian: “Castres”
  • Scots: “Castres”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Castres”
  • Serbian: “Castres”
  • Serbian: “Kastr”
  • Serbian: “Кастр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Castres”
  • Sicilian: “Castres”
  • Slovak: “Castres”
  • Slovenian: “Castres”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کستر”
  • Spanish: “Castres”
  • Swahili: “Castres”
  • Swedish: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Swedish: “Castres”
  • Swiss German: “Castres”
  • Tatar: “Кастр”
  • Turkish: “Castres”
  • Ukrainian: “Кастр”
  • Venetian: “Castres”
  • Vietnamese: “Castres, Tarn”
  • Vietnamese: “Castres”
  • Vlaams: “Castres”
  • Volapük: “Castres”
  • Walloon: “Castres”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castres, Tarn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castres”
  • Welsh: “Castres”
  • Wolof: “Castres”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡斯特尔”
  • Zulu: “Castres”
  • “Castres”

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