Cancon

Cancon is a common French, located in the department of Lot-et-Garonne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Commune located on the Trunk road 21 between Castillonnès and Villeneuve-sur-Lot

It enorgueillit to be itself the capital of the Hazel nut.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • oldest is undoubtedly the Château of which it does not remain that the base of a tower and other walls removed from the vegetation which pushed there with the beginning of the year 2000. It is located at the top of the hill where the village is flanked and one has a point of view there on the dwellings and the surrounding countryside.
  • One of the places of the village is occupied by a market built out of metal at the 19th century.
  • Non far from there is the War memorial the recent wars having affected the local population: the first and the second world war as well as conflicts in North Africa.

Personalities related to the commune

Events

In September 2003, Cancon accommodates a meeting of the altermondialists organized by Jose Bove simultaneously with the top of the World Trade organization of Cancún.

See too

  • Common of Lot-et-Garonne

External bonds

  • Site of Cancon

  • Site IGN of Cancon
  • Cancon on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Cancon on the site of INSEE
  • Cancon on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Cancon on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Cancon on Mapquest

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