Avignonet-Lauragais

Avignonet-Lauragais is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Avignonetains.

Blazon

Blazon: blade and against-blade of sinople and gold of six parts.

Geography

Avignonet-Lauragais is located in the Lauragais between Toulouse and Castelnaudary on the Trunk road 113 at the edge of the Autoroute of the Two Seas. Located on the road of the holidays towards the Mediterranean, the village visible since the Autoroute by the presence of several wind S is pulled by the wind of Autan which sweeps the plain. Not far another transportation route, the Canal of the South passes to the foot of the village. The Port-Lauragais is a highway and harbor halt located on the commune.

The village is located at the extreme North-East of the department of the Haute-Garonne at the border of the Département of the Aude close to the Seuil of Naurouze, not of division of water the Mediterranean and Atlantique S. the commune is vastest of the Canton of Villefranche-to-Lauragais. In north the black Montagne is and of many hills where several brooks run throwing itself in the Hers-Death. In the south is the plain of Lauragais and with far the chain from the the Pyrenees.

History

The Blé is the principal culture of the plain of Lauragais as of the time Gallo-Roman E. But it is at the 15th century that the Pastel makes the area rich. The area " then is named; Country of cocagne". But the Indigo come from America competition the pastel and the corn becomes again the main resource of the country as from the 16th century.

But the village is cnnu for the massacre of the inquisiteurs of the Catharisme. May 28th, 1242, the court of Inquisition was directed by Guillaume Arnaud and Etienne de Saint-Thibéry and was held in the city. Several men directed by Pierre-Roger de Mirepoix and helped by people of Avignonet massacre during their sleep the inquisiteurs and them following blows of axe thus making eleven victims. But, it will be only one of the last starts of resistance before the seat of Montségur, which will end in one to rough-hew intended for the cathares taken refuge in the place, in March 1244.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the church Notre-Dame of the miracles, started in 1385 has a octagonal Clocher flanked of an elegant turret of staircases and crowned by a Gothic arrow with hooks. Inside, a table of 1631, placed at the bottom of the church, evokes the massacre perpetrated on May 28th 1242 by entreated of Lauragais against the members of the court of the enquiry to the castle of Avignonet which disappeared since.
the crusader of Avignonet and the Turn pepper plantation going back to 1352.
Old Windmills.
Central Wind of Avignonet-Lauragais belonging to program EOLE 2005. The park holds ten N50 wind mills (of 800 kw and 50 meters diameter), that is to say a total power installed of 8 MW.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Haute-Garonne
Via Tolosane

External bonds

Avignonet-Lauragais on the site of the national geographical Institute
Avignonet-Lauragais on the site of INSEE
Avignonet-Lauragais on the site of Quid
Localization of Avignonet-Lauragais on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Avignonet-Lauragais on Mapquest
Site of the opponents to the wind mills of Avignonet Lauragais

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