Bruges-Capbis-Mifaget

Geography

The territory of the commune of Bruges-Capbis-Mifaget, of a surface of 16,55 km2, presents an undulating relief to the foot of the first buttresses of the Pyrenean chain. Altitudes vary from 250 to 500 meters. The rivers are Béez and its affluents Landistou and Arrec, Lestarrès and Bazès.

Heritage of the charter of foundation of the Country house of Bruges, the commune is landowner of 34,46 km2 mountains contiguous to its territory, and registered on the territories of the common neighbors of Asson, Louvie-Juzon and Castet. Composed of forests and pastures, these mountains culminate with 1580 meters with the peak of Mombula and 1540 meters with the peak of Merdanson.

Communes bordering

High-with-Bosdarros in north
Arros-with-Nay in the North-East
Lily in the North-West
Asson in the east and the south
Arthez-in Asson in south-east
Louvie-Juzon in south-west.

History

In XIIe century: foundation of Capbis (1128) and Mifaget (1127) by the Viscount of Béarn Gaston IV the Crusader to create, under the authority of monastic orders, of the small points of settlement and refuge for the pilgrims of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle.

In 1357: foundation of the Country house of Bruges by Bertrand de Pujols, general lieutenant of Gaston Fébus, viconte of Foix Béarn. The name of Bruges probably comes from the Flemish city of Bruges where Gaston Fébus remained the same year, before embarking and taking part in Prussia in a Crusade with the Knights teutonic. Jean-Baptiste Laborde: Foundation of the Country house of Bruges in Béarn - historical and archaeological Review of Béarn and the Pays Basque - 1924.

During several centuries, agriculture, pastoralism and craft industry constitute the essence of the economic activity, enamelled many conflicts of territory for the use of grounds the common, called " herms" , between Bruges and Capbis. Christian Desplat: the Crime of the Sixteen - the " Mourt" of the Abbot of Sauvelade - ED Cairn - 2000.

At the XIXe century (1834 and 1855): more than 200 people die in Bruges at the time of the two important cholera epidemics which break in the department.

At the end of the XIXe century: Bruges knows an industrial episode of manufacture of sandals which takes importance, at the XXe century, between the two wars. Three factories and of many small independent manufacturers employ a qualified, considered and very many labor. This die disappears definitively at the end of the years 1960.

on January 1st, 1973, the three common neighbors of Bruges, Capbis and Mifaget amalgamate to form the new commune of Bruges-Capbis-Mifaget under the aegis of the law " Marcelin" N° 71-588 of July 16th, 1971. Order of the prefect of the bearing December 22nd, 1972 on the fusion of the communes of Bruges, Capbis and Mifaget .

Blasonnement

Gold to a busy and circumvented mouths, joined cow, accornée and clarinée of azure, outgoing of a wood of sinople mature standing timber.

Administration

Demography

Culture and inheritance

Country house of Bruges
Churches of Bruges and Mifaget
the district Canting hypocrite of Maubec
nicknames of formerly: the inhabitants of Bruges were called " lous pélacas" (shovel-dogs) because, one, some of them say had taken the practice, for the periods of food shortage, to subject the dogs the same fate as with the pigs. Another version says that the Brugeans killed out of the pigs so thin that they resembled dogs, that of which the neighbors of Asson, perhaps richer, made fun. The inhabitants of Capbis were called " lous clabétous" because they had developed as of the XVIIe century, an artisanal activity of manufacture of wrought iron nails.

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