Fourques
Fourques is a commune and a village in the southeastern corner of the Gard department in southern France, some 4 km north of Arles. The village is located at the confluence of the Rhone and the Little Rhone and sprang up adjoining a bridge across the latter built by the Romans.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 2,900 residents
- Description: commune in Gard, France
- Also known as: “30117”, “Forcas”, and “Fourques, Gard”
- Neighbors: Arles
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roman Theatre of Arles and Church of St. Trophime, Arles.
Roman Theatre of Arles
Theater building
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Roman Theatre of Arles is a 1st-century Roman theatre, built during the reign of Caesar Augustus. It is located next to the Arles Amphitheatre in the city of Arles, Provence, France.
Church of St. Trophime, Arles
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St. Trophime is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral located in the city of Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department of southern France.
Obélisque d’Arles
Photo: Wolfgang Staudt, CC BY 2.0.
The Obélisque d'Arles is a 4th-century Roman obelisk, erected in the center of the Place de la République, in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Arles, France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arles and Barriol.
Arles
Photo: Ddeveze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arles is a town in the Provence in the southeast of France. Remote, uneventful, but definitely no waste of time, Arles is absolutely steeped in Provençal culture, and features a collection of Roman archaeological sites.
LUMA Arles
Neighborhood
Photo: MYR67, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Luma Arles is an arts center in Arles, France created by the LUMA Foundation headed by Swiss arts patron Maja Hoffmann. It encompasses several renovated former railroad factories and the LUMA Tower, a 15,000 square meter tower building designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry for the LUMA Foundation.
Fourques
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Nîmes, Gard, Occitanie, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fourques” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fourques”
- Aragonese: “Fourques”
- Arpitan: “Fourques”
- Asturian: “Fourques”
- Bambara: “Fourques”
- Basque: “Fourques”
- Bavarian: “Fourques”
- Breton: “Fourques”
- Buginese: “Fourques, Gard”
- Buginese: “Fourques”
- Cajun French: “Fourques”
- Catalan: “Forcas”
- Catalan: “Fourques”
- Cebuano: “Fourques, Gard”
- Cebuano: “Fourques”
- Chechen: “ФугӀк”
- Chinese: “Fourques, Gard”
- Chinese: “Fourques”
- Chinese: “富尔克”
- Chinese: “富尔屈埃”
- Chinese: “富爾克”
- Corsican: “Fourques”
- Croatian: “Fourques”
- Czech: “Fourques”
- Danish: “Fourques”
- Dutch: “Forcas”
- Dutch: “Fourques”
- Esperanto: “Forcas”
- Esperanto: “Fourques”
- Estonian: “Fourques”
- Faroese: “Fourques”
- Finnish: “Fourques”
- French: “Forcas”
- French: “Fourques”
- Friulian: “Fourques”
- Galician: “Fourques”
- German: “Forcas”
- German: “Fourques”
- Greek: “Φουρκ”
- Hungarian: “Fourques”
- Icelandic: “Fourques”
- Ido: “Fourques”
- Indonesian: “Fourques, Gard”
- Indonesian: “Fourques”
- Interlingua: “Fourques”
- Interlingue: “Fourques”
- Irish: “Fourques”
- Italian: “Forcas”
- Italian: “Fourques”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Fourques”
- Japanese: “フルク”
- Kabyle: “Fourques”
- Kalaallisut: “Fourques”
- Kazakh: “Fwrk”
- Kazakh: “Фурк”
- Kazakh: “فۋرك”
- Kongo: “Fourques”
- Kurdish: “Fourques, Gard”
- Kurdish: “Fourques”
- Ladin: “Fourques”
- Latin: “Fourques”
- Latvian: “Fourques”
- Ligurian: “Fourques”
- Limburgan: “Fourques”
- Lithuanian: “Fourques”
- Lombard: “Fourques”
- Low German: “Fourques”
- Luxembourgish: “Fourques”
- Mainfränkisch: “Fourques”
- Malagasy: “Fourques (Gard)”
- Malagasy: “Fourques, Gard”
- Malagasy: “Fourques”
- Malay: “Fourques, Gard”
- Malay: “Fourques”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fourques”
- Minangkabau: “Fourques”
- Narom: “Fourques”
- Neapolitan: “Fourques”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fourques”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fourques”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forcas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fourques”
- Papiamento: “Fourques”
- Picard: “Fourques”
- Piemontese: “Fourques”
- Polish: “Fourques”
- Portuguese: “Fourques”
- Prussian: “Fourques”
- Romagnol: “Fourques”
- Romanian: “Fourques, Gard”
- Romanian: “Fourques”
- Romansh: “Fourques”
- Sardinian: “Fourques”
- Scots: “Fourques”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fourques”
- Serbian: “Fourques”
- Serbian: “Furk”
- Serbian: “Фурк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fourques”
- Sicilian: “Fourques”
- Slovak: “Fourques”
- Spanish: “Forcas”
- Spanish: “Fourques”
- Swahili: “Fourques”
- Swedish: “Fourques, Gard”
- Swedish: “Fourques”
- Swiss German: “Fourques”
- Turkish: “Fourques”
- Ukrainian: “Фурк”
- Uzbek: “Fourques”
- Venetian: “Fourques”
- Vietnamese: “Fourques, Gard”
- Vietnamese: “Fourques”
- Vlaams: “Fourques”
- Volapük: “Fourques”
- Walloon: “Fourques”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fourques, Gard”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fourques”
- Welsh: “Fourques”
- Wolof: “Fourques”
- Yue Chinese: “Fourques”
- Zulu: “Fourques”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Musée Réattu and Arles Railway Station.
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