Montbolo

Montbolo Montboló
Commune
The road into Montbolo
Coat of arms
Location of Montbolo
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Coordinates: 42°29′09″N 2°39′21″E / 42.4858°N 2.6558°E / 42.4858; 2.6558
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Céret
Canton	Le Canigou
Intercommunality	Haut Vallespir
Government
• Mayor (2023–2026)	Marie-Josée Macabies
Area 1	21.98 km2 (8.49 sq mi)
Elevation	576 m (1,890 ft)
Highest elevation	1,323 m (4,341 ft)
Lowest elevation	240 m (790 ft)
Population  (2023)	189
• Density	8.60/km2 (22.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66113 /66110
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montbolo (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃bɔlo] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Montboló) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localization

Montbolo is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Population

Sites of interest

The Saint-Andrew church of Montbolo was first built in the 12th century and then modified in the 13th, 14th and 17th centuries. At the end of the 19th century, works started for a full repair of the church, but the new roof was entirely destroyed following a storm in January 1900. Other repairs have been made more recently, such as the rebuild of the portal, which destroyed some of the older elements.

Montbolo has two dolmens: the Caixa de Rotllan, on the city limit with Arles-sur-Tech and the dolmen de Formentera.

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  Saint-Andrew church
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  Caixa de Rotllan

Culture

Poetry

• Confidences d'un moutard parisien (1912) is a poem by the writer Marc Anfossi which mentions Montbolo, Palalda and Montalba-d'Amélie.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department
• Montbolo culture