- Rognac is a city-sized, nice, emphasizing quality of life. She has also received in 2011 its first flower in the contest of Cities and Villages in Bloom.
- According to the 2010 census, it contains 12,247 inhabitants, an area of 1739 hectares.
- The city belongs to the urban community Agglopole Provence which is the gateway to the Alpilles, the Camargue and Aix countries. Born on 1 January 2002, the Community of agglomeration comprises 17 communes and has 130,000 inhabitants Alleins, Will, Berre-l'Étang, Charleval, Eyguières, La Barben, La Fare les Oliviers, Lamanon, Lancon de Provence Mallemort, Pélissanne, Rognac, Saint-Chamas, Salon-de-Provence, Sénas, and Velaux Vernègues.
- Infrastructure:
- Axis Rail access to the TGV station Marseille / Paris or Aix-en-Provence/Paris.
- Main roads: A7 motorway, Highway 113.
- 10 minutes from the Marseille-Provence airport and 20 minutes from the port of Marseille.
- A little history ...
- Inhabited by humans for over 5000 years, the land of Rognac was first occupied by Neolithic Chasséen groups who lived either on the edge of the pond or in the plains or on the rocky heights of the bars lived by hunting, fishing, farming and livestock rearing.
- For these groups followed those of the Bronze Age and Iron. The Early History of the Ligurian created there a village and plain, at the end of the first millennium BC, a refuge in height Castellas.
- Roman rule, from the late second century BC, was followed in the late first century BC, through the creation of many areas of which one, Rudinacum, is probably the origin of the name of Rognac. The decline of the Middle Ages did not spare Rognac, which, however, was never abandoned.
- The first millennium led to the development of the land with the construction of a feudal castle and a village perched at the foot of Castellas. The latter was abandoned in the mid-15th century and the people moved slowly near the pond and the good land of the plain, in which country houses grew larger over time to form hamlets ancestors the city today.
