Cransac

Cransac
The thermal baths
The thermal baths
Coat of arms of Cransac
Location of Cransac
Map
Cransac is located in France
Cransac
Cransac
Cransac is located in Occitanie
Cransac
Cransac
Coordinates: 44°31′33″N 2°17′07″E / 44.5258°N 2.2853°E / 44.5258; 2.2853
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentAveyron
ArrondissementVillefranche-de-Rouergue
CantonEnne et Alzou
Government
 • Mayor (2023–2026) Bernard Canac[1]
Area
1
6.91 km2 (2.67 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
1,469
 • Density210/km2 (550/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
12083 /12110
Elevation274–470 m (899–1,542 ft)
(avg. 277 m or 909 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cransac (French pronunciation: [kʁɑ̃sak]) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Cransac station has rail connections to Brive-la-Gaillarde, Figeac and Rodez.

The town was a coal-mining centre until the mine closed in 1962.[3] Cransac has mineral springs, known in the middle ages. There are iron-mines in the neighbourhood. Hills to the north of the town contain disused coal-mines which have been on fire for centuries. About 8 kilometres (8,000 m) to the south is the fine Renaissance château of Bournazel, built for the most part by Jean de Buisson, baron of Bournazel, about 1545. The barony of Bournazel became a marquisate in 1624.[4]

Smoke escaping from the "Burning Mountain"
  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ "The Burning Mountain". Experience (my) France. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  4. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cransac". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 378.