Navès, Tarn

Navès
Navès
Commune
	Château de Montespieu
	Coat of arms
	Location of Navès
	Navès Navès
	Coordinates: 43°34′01″N 2°13′28″E / 43.5669°N 2.2244°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Tarn
Arrondissement	Castres
Canton	Castres-3
Intercommunality	CA Castres Mazamet
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Calmels
Area 1	9.75 km2 (3.76 sq mi)
Population (2022)	690
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	81195 /81710
Elevation	158–286 m (518–938 ft) ; (avg. 176 m or 577 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
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Navès (French pronunciation: [navɛs]; Occitan: Navés) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

Geography

The Thoré forms most of the commune's north-eastern border, then flows into the Agout, which forms part of its northern border.

Château de Montespieu, restored castle, listed as a monument historique in 1992.^[3]
Château de Navès (residence of Georges Prêtre)
The manoir de Gaillard and its classified dovecote
Tour de Navès, fortified 16th-century tower, listed as a monument historique in 1995.^[4]
Church of Saint John the Baptiste

Georges Prêtre (1924 – 2017), orchestral and opera conductor, had a home in Navès.^[5]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ Base Mérimée: PA00095675, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) "Château de Montespieu". Retrieved 14 October 2022
^ Base Mérimée: PA00135479, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) "Tour de Navès". Retrieved 15 October 2022
^ Marie-Aude Roux (4 January 2017). "Georges Prêtre, le plus viennois des chefs d'orchestre, est mort" [Georges Prêtre, the most Viennese of orchestra conductors, has died]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 15 October 2022.

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States France BnF data Israel
Geographic	MusicBrainz area