Orsans, Aude

Orsans is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Orsans
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Orsans
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Coordinates: 43°09′44″N 1°58′59″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Carcassonne
Canton	La Piège au Razès
Intercommunality	Piège et Lauragais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Bonnafil
Area 1	9.94 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	104
• Density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11268 /11270
Elevation	304–400 m (997–1,312 ft) (avg. 355 m or 1,165 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Orsans is a small hamlet in the south of France, it used to be an important village with a school and many farming supplies, but now is just a small farming community. There is a medieval church and there used to be a large windmill on the hill, which is now gone; however, the storage house (which was also a cowshed for a while) remains, now converted into a house. There is a statue in the square which celebrates the ceased or injured form Orsans in World War I. A small stream runs through the hills that are used for farming. On top of the largest hill in or sans there is a large old water tower, that is surrounded by cows.