Sète - Sète (English spelling)

Japanese: セート - せーと(英語表記)Sète
Sète - Sète (English spelling)

A city in the Hérault department in southern France. Formerly known as Cette (used until 1927). Population 39,542 (1999). It is located on a sandbar between the Bay of Lyon on the Mediterranean coast and the lagoon of the Étang de Thau. The Sète Canal, built in the 17th century, connects the sea to the lagoon, which leads to the Canal du Midi. It developed as France's second largest Mediterranean port city after Marseille, and is home to oil refining, chemicals, electrical machinery, and food industries. It is also one of the leading fishing ports on the Mediterranean coast, and in recent years has also become the center of a leisure area. It is the birthplace of the poet Paul Valéry, and is home to the Valéry Museum, and his grave is located in the cemetery known for his work "Cimetiere à la Maritime".

[Nobuyoshi Aoki]

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Japanese:

フランス南部、エロー県の都市。旧名セットCette(1927年まで使用)。人口3万9542(1999)。地中海岸のリヨン湾とラグーン(潟湖(せきこ))であるトー湖とに挟まれた砂州上に位置する。17世紀に建設されたセート運河が、海とミディ運河へ通じる潟湖とをつなぐ。マルセイユに次ぐフランス第二の地中海の港湾都市として発達し、石油精製、化学、電気機械、食品工業が盛ん。地中海岸有数の漁港でもあり、近年はレジャー地帯の中心地でもある。詩人ポール・バレリーの生誕地で、バレリー博物館があり、作品『海辺の墓地』で知られる墓地に彼の墓がある。

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