Aix-en-Diois

Part of Solaure-en-Diois in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Location of Aix-en-Diois

44°42′38″N 5°24′07″E / 44.7106°N 5.4019°E / 44.7106; 5.4019CountryFranceRegionAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesDepartmentDrômeArrondissementDieCantonLe DioisCommuneSolaure-en-Diois Area

16.49 km² (6.37 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[1]

331 • Density20/km² (52/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

26150

Elevation433–1,259 m (1,421–4,131 ft)
(avg. 444 m or 1,457 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aix-en-Diois (French pronunciation: [ɛks ɑ̃ diwa]; Vivaro-Alpine: Ais de Diés) is a former commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Solaure-en-Diois.^[2]

History

Aix-en-Diois belonged to the counts and later to the bishops of Die (twelfth century). Later, it belonged to the Princes of Orange, and finally to the La Tour du Pin family (seventeenth century). The commune contains the remains of Roman baths and the ruins of a 13th-century medieval castle with a polygonal enclosure and corner towers, rebuilt in the 16th century.^[3] The castle hall dates from the 17th century and is the former summer residence of the Bishop of Die. The main church is the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2006	330	—
2011	357	+1.59%
2021	331	−0.75%
Source: INSEE^[4]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Populations légales 2021" [Legal populations 2021] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2023.
^ Arrêté préfectoral Archived 2016-02-06 at the Wayback Machine 18 December 2015 (in French)
^ Michèle Bois et Chrystèle Burgard, Fortifications et châteaux dans la Drôme, éditions Créaphis, 192 p, 2004
^ Populations légales 2011, INSEE