Cabestany

See also: Cabestany (homonymy)

Cabestany is a common French, located in the department of the the Eastern Pyrenees and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Cabestanyencs.

Geography

Cabestany is a commune of 1042 hectares, located in the coastal plain of Roussillon, just in the south-east of Perpignan, near the pond of Canet-in-Roussillon. Its territory extends between the rivers from the Têt (the Small fireclay cup) and from Réart. It acts for the unit of an old marshy zone, formerly occupied by ponds now drained. The agricultural territory, primarily devoted to the vine, narrowed considerably since about thirty years with the extension of the suburban zones.

Communes bordering: Perpignan, Canet-in-Roussillon, Saint-Nazaire, Saleilles.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Notre-Dame church of the Angels, which shelters the tympanum marial known as Maître of Cabestany (fine of the 12th century). The frame of a span of the church dates from the 14th century. Near the church, remainders of buried earthenware jars, signs of presence of an attic and perhaps of a Roman villa, were found. Another villa of big size occupied doubtless the light reliefs of the current street of the Hill.

  • It is curious to note that the current Town hall and its close dependences occupy about exactly the site of the storeroom, communal attic of the Middle Ages.
  • On the slopes, in direction of the sea, towards Canet-in-Roussillon, is the " terraces of Cabestany" , flat places inhabited by the men since: at least 800000 years (i.e. well before the datings of Tautavel). Unfortunately, the wind destroyed any trace of these first hearths of Roussillon, and the rare cut stones that one finds there sometimes are very éolisées, and very little identifiable.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Guillem de Cabestany, a troubadour of the 12th century.
  • About the same time, the itinerant anonymous sculptor baptized later the Main of Cabestany, probably carved in a vault dedicated to Saint-Thomas and disappeared today, a tympanum marial of a particular and identifiable invoice in an easy way.
  • Ludovic Massé, which was teacher with Cabestany.
  • Jules Sbroglia, professional footballer

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