Saint-Girons

• Name — Saint-Girons • Commune Status — Subprefecture and commune • Arrondissement — Saint-Girons • Canton — Couserans Ouest • Insee — 09261 • Postal Code — 09200 • Mayor — Jean-Noël Vigneau • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — Couserans-Pyrénées • Elevation M — 391 • Elevation Min M — 387 • Elevation Max M — 1200 • Area Km2 — 19.13

• Illustration — Funerary cippus to a Pompeia Unlike its close neighbour Saint-Lizier, Saint-Girons isn't an ancient city; there was however a lucus on its present territory where some Roman finds were made during the construction of the train station in the beginning of the twentieth century. Modern-days district Le Luc is considered to owe its name to this ancient lucus.

• Illustration — St Girons' Church by the Salat river The city is named after Saint Girons, a saint from fifth-century Landes who evangelized Novempopulania. In the ninth century some of his relics were supposedly buried in Saint Girons' Church, around which the city later developed.

Saint-Girons has a moderate but warm oceanic climate, that is quite prone to temporary vast extremes in temperature as a result of its inland position.

Inhabitants of Saint-Girons are called Saint-Gironnais in French. • Illustration — Countryside • Illustration — Countryside

Stage 8 of the 2009 Tour de France finished in Saint-Girons, after travelling 176 km from Andorra la Vella. Stage 9 of the 2013 Tour de France started here.