Brassempouy

Brassempouy is a common French, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Village located at the variation of the road connecting Mount-with-Marsan to Orthez, approximately ten kilometers in the south-west of Hagetmau. From the point of view of its historical organization, the village is related with the country house-streets. The river the Luy-of-France mark limit between Brassempouy and Amou. Other brooks delimit the commune roughly: the Brook of Pouy in the west, the Brook of Saougues in the east and the Brook of Cazalis in the south. The North-West of the commune is made of a spit of land known as Landes of Herrères . In the south, one finds a moor known as Barthe de Laribère .

Communes bordering: in the North-East, Saint-Cricq-Chalosse, in the east Cazalis, the south Nassiet, south-west Amou, the west Gaujacq and the North-West Bergouey. Principal variations: Labarraque, the Station.

History

This small village of Chalosse became famous thanks to the discovery in 1890 of prehistoric vestiges in caves located on the ground of the commune (of which the cave of the Pope), and in particular thanks to the discovery of a true treasure, a small ivory figurine of mammoth, the Dame of Brassempouy (known as also Dame with the Hood). It is about the oldest known representation (in the world) of an human face, all the more remarkable by its smoothness and its beauty. An archaeological museum (the House of the Lady) is devoted to this discovery, supplemented by a prehistoric course (the Garden of the Lady). Other times left traces still clearly visible today in the structure of the village. For example, one can still distinguish from the ground fortifications, called " camps romains" although one is unaware of the exact origin of it. However, it is commonly allowed that the village was built with the site of old a castrum Roman. But in fact especially the Middle Ages marked the village, since the construction even of the borough goes back to this time. Brassempouy is indeed an old English country house, and the borough is organized in village-street: the houses are aligned around a main street (and so to speak almost single) closed on a side by the castle (that which is visible today date of the XIXe century), and other side, by the church. This church (XIIe century) is today classified historic building.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Layer of Brassempouy (cave of the Pope, Dubalen shelter, gallery of Mégacéros and cave of the Hyenas): prehistoric site comprising of the vestiges going up with the Paleolithic superior and place of discovered Lady with the hood. The Grotte of the Pope is classified Historic building by decree of August 13rd, 1980.
Church Saint-Sernin or Saint-Saturnin (classified historic building - stopped of January 3rd, 1939) whose Western frontage and the walls of the bedside and nave probably go back to the 12th century. It contains two statues of wood (Saint-Paul and a bishop) of the XVIIe century, classified with the Historic buildings by decree of September 18th, 2001.
Museum of archeology , presenting reproductions of the nine ivory figurines discovered on the site, as well as reproductions of other female figurines discovered in France.
Vestiges of the Castle of Poudenx , whose site shelters the museum.

Personalities related to the commune

Additional details

Animations take place throughout the year almost: Employers' festivals: Week end Rise. Music celebrates: June. Festival Music' Arts: At the end of July. Grape harvest: October September. Hailhe de Nadau (fires of Christmas): December 24th. The festival Music' Arts holds the attention in particular: it takes place each year at the end of July (the first edition goes back to 1995) and associates concerts in the church, exposures of art (painting, sculpture) and day of the Middle Ages with various animations in costumes of time. In addition, in addition to the association Music' Arts which manages the festival, the village counts several other religious organizations: the association of the archaeological building site of Brassempouy, Friends of Brassempouy (which intends to defend the inheritance of the commune and to promote its development), Brachipodio (of which the goal is to safeguard and revive the memory of the village), the folk group Lous Toustem Amics (gathering musicians, dancers and waders) and Small hands of Brassempouy (which seeks to promote the activities of creative leisures).

See too

Common of the Moors

External bonds

Official site of the museum of Brassempouy: The House of the Lady
Official site of the village of Brassempouy
Brassempouy on the site of the national geographical Institute
Brassempouy on the site of INSEE
Brassempouy on the site of Quid
Localization of Brassempouy on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Brassempouy on Mapquest

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