Auvillar

Auvillar is a common , located in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

The inhabitants of Auvillar are called the Auvillarais and Auvillaraises .

At the end of the long plain, a Suspended bridge crosses the the Garonne between Espalais and the " port " of Auvillar.

Heraldic

This blazon dates from the Middle Ages and was ordered by the lords who decided that Auvillar would be well represented by 2 towers each one surmounted of 3 flêches, schematization of a residence seigneuriale. But this blazon was not official.

Geography

The village of Auvillar is located on the the Garonne, between the towns of Agen and Montauban. It is located on a rocky outcrop dominating the Garonne. The sight extends from the doors of the Aquitaine at the coasts from the Quercy.

It belongs to one of the more beautiful villages of France

History

Initially known like Gallo-Roman city ( Alta Villa ), Auvillar was a Gallo-Roman oppidum fixed on a rocky outcrop. It was victim many invasions, particularly Normand S until the 11th century.

At the 12th century, the city becomes chief town of a Viscount, then property of the Counts of Armagnac with before becoming at the 16th century stronghold of the Kings of Navarre.

Auvillar is attached to the crown of France, with the advent of Henri IV in 1589. Its situation of fortified town subjects the city of Auvillar to all the conflicts which devastate the area, since the Croisade against the Albigensians, the Guerre One hundred Year old, the wars of religion, the Ligue.

, Auvillar owes its prosperity with two industries the Faïence S of which was located at the place says Lance and the preparation of the feathers of Oie used in Calligraphie, and with its river traffic.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the traffic boatman reached 3.000 boats per annum.

Administration

Demography

Inheritance and culture

Historic buildings

the place of the market is made up many residences of.
a circular market in the center of a triangular place with corner : The building goes back to 1824.
the turn of the Clock : it surplomble the door Arnaud Othon, of the name of a Viscount of Auvillar. It marks also the entry of the old city. The construction of the time of Louis XIV is out of stone and bricks. The doors and the fenètres are in semicircular arch and each stage is decorated mouldings excavated in brick.
the church Saint-Pierre .
the vault of the sailors .

Museums

Museum of Old Auvillar with its earthenware of the 17th century and its manufacture of goose feathers for the writing and an ex-voto of marines

The historical center

By a lane, broadside of old houses of, which those of the Consuls and vault, closed down, Carmelite friars, one arrives on a place at covers where throne a circular market on columns , built in 1825 on the remainders of an old quadrangular market, and true lesson of architecture and town planning.

There are a street Saint-Jacob and a street of Sauvetat, evidence that the way exists.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

Auvillar is located on the way of the Via Podiensis of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle . The preceding stage is the town of Moissac and the next commune is Saint-Antoine-on-the Arrats .

Religious buildings

the Saint-Pierre church. is an old priory Benedictine of the centuries. It was restored at the centuries. Long, it 43 m preserves a Romance part, with the clear and dark stones alternate, and a Gothic vault with Lierne S and Tierceron S. a visit of the Treasury in the crypt of the church is possible.

On the old quays, the Holy vault Catherine of the Port, date of the 14th century century. Sainte Catherine was the owner of the marines. On its frontage, a Chrisme of the time mérovingienne is visible.

Personalities related to the commune

Marcabrun, celebrates félibre the Middle Ages.

See too

Common of Tarn-et-Garonne

External bonds

Official site: word of the Mayor, advisers, sites useful, forms: www.auvillar.fr
the review of regional history ARKHEIA]
schools of Auvillar
official site of the community of the communes of 2 banks relating to Auvillar
Auvillar on the site of the national geographical Institute
Auvillar on the site of INSEE
Auvillar on the site of Quid
Localization of Auvillar on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Auvillar on Mapquest
Many photographs of Auvillar and of the area, on the site www.toulousevisit.com

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