Tarascon
Tarascon, sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a commune situated at the extreme west of the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 15,000 residents
- Description: commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Also known as: “13108” and “Tarascon-sur-Rhône”
- Neighbors: Arles
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château de Tarascon and Château de Beaucaire.
Château de Tarascon
Castle
Photo: Wolfgang Staudt, CC BY 2.0.
The Château de Tarascon is a medieval castle in Tarascon in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the south of France. The fortress stands on the banks of the Rhône opposite Château de Beaucaire, and near St Martha's Collegiate Church and ensured the security of the western border of Provence.
Château de Beaucaire
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Château de Beaucaire is a ruined medieval castle in the commune of Beaucaire in the Gard département of France. First built by the Counts of Toulouse, the castle served as an important point in the Albigensian Crusade and was torn down on Richelieu's orders in the 16th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beaucaire and Quartier Kilmaine.
Beaucaire
Town
Photo: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beaucaire is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. In 2020, the commune was awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.
Tarascon
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tarascon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarascon”
- Arabic: “تاراسكون”
- Aragonese: “Tarascon”
- Armenian: “Տարասկոն”
- Arpitan: “Tarascon”
- Asturian: “Tarascon”
- Azerbaijani: “Taraskon”
- Bambara: “Tarascon”
- Basque: “Tarascon”
- Bavarian: “Tarascon”
- Breton: “Tarascon”
- Bulgarian: “Тараскон”
- Cajun French: “Tarascon”
- Catalan: “Tarascó”
- Catalan: “Tarascon”
- Cebuano: “Tarascon”
- Chechen: “ТагӀаскон”
- Chinese: “Tarascon”
- Chinese: “塔拉斯孔”
- Corsican: “Tarascon”
- Croatian: “Tarascon”
- Czech: “Tarascon”
- Danish: “Tarascon”
- Dutch: “Tarascon-sur-Rhone”
- Dutch: “Tarascon-sur-Rhône”
- Dutch: “Tarascon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاراسكون”
- Esperanto: “Tarascon”
- Esperanto: “Taraskono”
- Estonian: “Tarascon”
- Faroese: “Tarascon”
- Finnish: “Tarascon”
- French: “Tarascon”
- Friulian: “Tarascon”
- Galician: “Tarascon”
- Galician: “Tarascón”
- German: “Tarascon”
- Greek: “Ταρασκόν”
- Hebrew: “טרסקון”
- Hungarian: “Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône)”
- Hungarian: “Tarascon”
- Icelandic: “Tarascon”
- Ido: “Tarascon”
- Iloko: “Tarascon”
- Indonesian: “Tarascon”
- Interlingua: “Tarascon”
- Interlingue: “Tarascon”
- Irish: “Tarascon”
- Italian: “Tarascon”
- Italian: “Tarascona”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Tarascon”
- Japanese: “タラスコン”
- Kabyle: “Tarascon”
- Kalaallisut: “Tarascon”
- Kongo: “Tarascon”
- Korean: “타라스콩”
- Kurdish: “Tarascon”
- Ladin: “Tarascon”
- Latin: “Tarasco”
- Latin: “Tarascon”
- Latvian: “Tarascon”
- Ligurian: “Tarascon”
- Limburgan: “Tarascon”
- Lithuanian: “Tarascon”
- Lombard: “Tarascon”
- Lombard: “Tarascona”
- Lombard: “Tarascòna”
- Lombard: “Tarascuna”
- Lombard: “Tarascùna”
- Low German: “Tarascon”
- Luxembourgish: “Tarascon”
- Mainfränkisch: “Tarascon”
- Malagasy: “Tarascon”
- Malay: “Tarascon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarascon”
- Minangkabau: “Tarascon”
- Narom: “Tarascon”
- Neapolitan: “Tarascon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarascon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarascon”
- Norwegian: “Tarascon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarascon”
- Ossetian: “Тараскон”
- Papiamento: “Tarascon”
- Persian: “تاراسکون”
- Picard: “Tarascon”
- Piemontese: “Tarascon”
- Polish: “Tarascon”
- Portuguese: “Tarascon”
- Prussian: “Tarascon”
- Romagnol: “Tarascon”
- Romanian: “Tarascon”
- Romansh: “Tarascon”
- Russian: “Тараскон”
- Sardinian: “Tarascon”
- Scots: “Tarascon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tarascon”
- Serbian: “Tarascon”
- Sicilian: “Tarascuni”
- Slovak: “Tarascon”
- Slovenian: “Tarascon”
- Spanish: “Tarascó”
- Spanish: “Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône)”
- Spanish: “Tarascon-sur-Rhone”
- Spanish: “Tarascon-sur-Rhône”
- Spanish: “Tarascon”
- Spanish: “Tarascón”
- Spanish: “Tarascona”
- Spanish: “Tarascòna”
- Spanish: “Tarascuna”
- Spanish: “Tarascùna”
- Swahili: “Tarascon”
- Swedish: “Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône”
- Swedish: “Tarascon”
- Swiss German: “Tarascon”
- Tatar: “Тараскон”
- Turkish: “Tarascon”
- Ukrainian: “Тараскон”
- Venetian: “Tarascon”
- Vietnamese: “Tarascon”
- Vlaams: “Tarascon”
- Volapük: “Tarascon”
- Walloon: “Tarascon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tarascon”
- Welsh: “Tarascon”
- Wolof: “Tarascon”
- Yue Chinese: “Tarascon”
- Zulu: “Tarascon”
- “Tarascon”
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