A village facing the Pic Saint-Loup
Teyran is located 10 kilometres north-east of Montpellier, on the departmental road 21 which connects the coast to the Gard. Surrounded by garrigue, the commune offers a view of the Pic Saint-Loup and has 4,787 inhabitants in 2023, up 4.38% from 2017. The territory descends gently towards the Salaison valley, which crosses the commune from north to south. Its inhabitants are called the Teyrannais and the Teyrannaises, and the commune is part of the community of communes of the Grand Pic Saint-Loup, a territory facing this emblematic massif.
Twenty-eight minutes northeast
From Saint-Jean-de-Védas, the road measures 25.3 kilometres and runs in 28 minutes. It is one of the most remote municipalities of this selection, but it remains in the same basin of Montpellieran life, with a whole other landscape, turned towards the garrigues of Pic Saint-Loup rather than towards the sea.
Jonquières Park and the Mag pool
For a family break, the Jonquières Park and the Mag Pool complete a visit to the village. Teyran also has complete sports facilities : football courts, tambourine courts, tennis courts, a gymnasium that hosts the handball club, a boulodrome, a skate park and an arena.
A media library and autumn celebrations
The Teyran Municipal Media Library opened in 1994 and offers multi-support collections on two levels, a multimedia area and year-round animations, at the service of the inhabitants and surrounding municipalities. The votive party takes place on the last weekend of August, the semi-marathon of harvests in September, and the Teyrannaise of the arts in November : three meetings that are taking place at the end of the year in the village.
A castle sold, a village growing
The castle of Teyran lost its prestige in the 19th century : on the death of Marquis Thomas de Masclavy on 19 July 1836, its heirs were to put it on sale, and the municipality acquired it on 19 February 1842 to install a presbytery, a school and a town hall. The population, which had 120 inhabitants in 1793, reached 450 in 1900. The telegraph was installed in 1902, electric lighting in 1909 : two steps that accompanied the gradual growth of the village to its current 4,787 inhabitants.
A complete health offer for a village of this size
Teyran brings together general practitioners, dentists, nurses, physiotherapists, a neurologist, a nutritionist, a speech therapist, an osteopath and a psychotherapist, as well as two pharmacies and a retirement home. This density of services, rare for a commune of this size, adds to the sports facilities and the media library to make Teyran a complete village, well beyond a simple passage step. The population is still quite old : in 2018, 33.1% of the population were over 60 years of age, compared to 27.5% in the department as a whole, when under 30s were 28.5%, below the departmental average of 35.4%. In the same year, the commune had 2,197 men for 2,388 women, or 52.08 per cent, a rate close to the departmental average of 52.24 per cent.
For whom this base makes sense
- A nature exit to the Pic Saint-Loup, with a return at the end of the day to the tram and shops of Saint-Jean-de-Védas.
- A family stay enjoying the pool and Jonquières Park, before or after a hike in the nearby garrigues.
- A weekend set on the September harvest semi-marathon or the votive party at the end of August, in the studio or the duplex.
