Title: Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne Content: Saint-Gaudens (Gascon: Sent Gaudenç) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens and of the canton of Saint-Gaudens. ==History== In antiquity, the present place of the city was near a Roman road between Toulouse and Dax, where there was a rural area called Mansus; Mansus was named later as Mas Saint-Pierre after the Christianization of the region. In 475, a young Christian boy, Gaudens, was killed by the Visigoths and he was buried in this place. The town took its current name in the ninth century, because may people came here to worship the martyr; the relics of Gaudens were deposited in the church of Mas-Saint-Pierre. As an important regional market place, Saint- Gaudens became the economic capital of the Comminges (a natural region and an old French region on the hills at the base of the Pyrenees). ==Geography== The city of Saint-Gaudens is in the Comminges, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is about to the southwest of Toulouse and at about from Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées). It is found on the left side of the Garonne river. The commune has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .  ===Climate=== The climate of Saint-Gaudens, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers. ==Population== thumbnail|Bell tower of the Collégiale St Pierre et St Gaudens The inhabitants of Saint-Gaudens are known, in French, as Saint- Gaudinois (women: Saint-Gaudinoises). Saint-Gaudens has a population, in 2014, of 11,255, for a population density of inhabitants/km2. Evolution of the population in Saint-Gaudens Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.8) ImageSize = width:500 height:373 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:30 top:30 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:14000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1000 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo BarData= bar:1968 text:1968 bar:1975 text:1975 bar:1982 text:1982 bar:1990 text:1990 bar:1999 text:1999 bar:2008 text:2008 bar:2014 text:2014 PlotData= color:barra width:30 align:left bar:1968 from:0 till: 11682 bar:1975 from:0 till: 12148 bar:1982 from:0 till: 11644 bar:1990 from:0 till: 11266 bar:1999 from:0 till: 10845 bar:2008 from:0 till: 11660 bar:2014 from:0 till: 11255 PlotData= bar:1968 at: 11682 fontsize:S text: 11,682 shift:(-12,5) bar:1975 at: 12148 fontsize:S text: 12,148 shift:(-15,5) bar:1982 at: 11644 fontsize:S text: 11,644 shift:(-15,5) bar:1990 at: 11266 fontsize:S text: 11,266 shift:(-15,5) bar:1999 at: 10845 fontsize:S text: 10,845 shift:(-15,5) bar:2008 at: 11660 fontsize:S text: 11,660 shift:(-15,5) bar:2014 at: 11255 fontsize:S text: 11,255 shift:(-15,5) == Administration == Saint-Gaudens is a subprefecture of the Haute-Garonne department, the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens and the administrative centre  of the canton of Saint-Gaudens. It is part of the intercommunality Cœur et Coteaux de Comminges . === Sister cities === Saint-Gaudens is twinned with: * Avranches, France * Barbastro, Spain * Vielha e Mijaran, Spain ==Sites of interest== Some important buildings are: * The Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Gaudens church * The Saint-Jacques chapelle * The Cloister (part of the cloister that remains of the old Bonnefond abbey)