Verquières

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Verquières]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Verquières}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Coat of arms

Location of Verquières

(2020–2026) Jean-Marc Martin-Teisserre^[1]Area

4.91 km² (1.90 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

790 • Density160/km² (420/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

13116 /13670

Elevation45–51 m (148–167 ft)
(avg. 49 m or 161 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Verquières (French pronunciation: [vɛʁkjɛʁ]; Occitan: Verquiera) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

History

Towards the middle of the 12th century when the manor fell Diocese of Avignon on which city had been built. The parish was removed and attached to Saint-Andiol, and then restored in 1841.

Aside from his Mas Provençal, very typical include its castle and the Jesuit Church of St. Vérédème, fortified 14th century and enlarged in the 19th.

Its features: a massive square tower and spire serving his masons' marks, its barrel-vaulted nave broken, its apse semi-circular buttresses crowned with watch towers.

There are also beautiful wrought iron cross, very ornate they are due to the dexterity of the Reverend Roy who was pastor of the town from 1876 to 1894.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	335	—
1975	316	−0.83%
1982	508	+7.02%
1990	654	+3.21%
1999	801	+2.28%
2007	776	−0.40%
2012	799	+0.59%
2017	818	+0.47%
Source: INSEE^[3]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE