La Valette-du-Var

La Valette-du-Var (French pronunciation: [la valɛtdyvaʁ]; Occitan: La Valeta; Provençal: La Valeto) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.

La Valette-du-Var La Valeta (Occitan)
Commune
A view within the village of La Valette-du-Var
Coat of arms
Location of La Valette-du-Var
La Valette-du-Var Show map of France La Valette-du-Var Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°08′18″N 5°58′59″E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Var
Arrondissement	Toulon
Canton	Toulon-3
Intercommunality	Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Thierry Albertini[1]
Area 1	15.5 km2 (6.0 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	23,660
• Density	1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
Demonym	Valettois
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	83144 /83160
Elevation	37–701 m (121–2,300 ft) (avg. 64 m or 210 ft)
Website	www.lavalette83.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,311 —     1800 2,152 −1.01% 1806 2,206 +0.41% 1821 2,015 −0.60% 1831 2,450 +1.97% 1836 2,267 −1.54% 1841 2,231 −0.32% 1846 2,275 +0.39% 1851 2,337 +0.54% 1856 2,127 −1.87% 1861 2,101 −0.25% 1866 2,125 +0.23% 1872 2,180 +0.43% 1876 2,127 −0.61% 1881 2,186 +0.55% 1886 2,196 +0.09% 1891 2,262 +0.59% 1896 2,470 +1.77%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,623 +1.21% 1906 2,837 +1.58% 1911 2,853 +0.11% 1921 2,847 −0.02% 1926 3,108 +1.77% 1931 3,455 +2.14% 1936 4,011 +3.03% 1946 5,055 +2.34% 1954 5,194 +0.34% 1962 6,949 +3.71% 1968 11,194 +8.27% 1975 14,745 +4.01% 1982 18,296 +3.13% 1990 20,687 +1.55% 1999 21,739 +0.55% 2007 22,282 +0.31% 2012 21,155 −1.03% 2017 23,884 +2.46%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968–2017)[4]

Features

La Valette-du-Var is home to two of the Jardins remarquable of France: the Domaine d'Orvès and the Domaine de Baudouvin.

Notable people

• The painter Pierre Deval (1897 – 1993) lived here, where he purchased the Domaine d'Orvès in 1925.
• The village cemetery contains the grave of Joseph Pujol, who died in 1945 and who, under his stage name of "Le Pétomane", was a famous flatulist.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

La Valette-du-Var is twinned with:^[5]

• Bocșa, Romania (1990)
• Krościenko nad Dunajcem, Poland (2005)
• Liévin, France (2001)
• Novocherkassk, Russia (1992)
• Somma Lombardo, Italy (1997)
• Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany (1974)

See also

• Communes of the Var department