Campsas

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

Its inhabitants is called Campsanais.

Geography

Campsas extends to north from the canton from Grisolles, between two affluents of the Tarn: Rieutord in the west and the brook of Fabas in the east, which forms the limit with the department of the Haute-Garonne. The Trunk road 20 and the Autoroute of the Two Seas place the borough at 15 km of Montauban and 38 km of Toulouse. At an average altitude of 120 m, the slopes which separate the river from the Tarn and the river of the the Garonne are supported by a good sunning and are dedicated to the culture of the Vigne which produces wines Of A.O.C. Coasts of Frontonnais.

History

Administration

Mayor

Demography

Places and monuments

the church

A Roman named Canitius gave his name to the parish mentioned in 1142, and which was as of this time the seat of a seigniory. The parish church is dedicated to Saint Blaise, bishop Armenian of the VI° century, that the carders chose for owner because its torturers tore it with iron combs. Old substructions seem to prove that it rose originally in the cemetery. In 1317, it is mentioned as parish in the bubble of the Pope Jean XXII which created the diocese of Montauban. Ruined by the wars of religion and rebuilt with the XIX° century, it presents a Nef panelled flanked on low sides, a chorus with flat bedside of the XVII° century leant with the wall of the old presbytery and a Clocher square turn surmounted by a polygonal arrow. The interior shelters a furniture of the XVIII° S, in particular polychrome marble a furnace bridge, a statue of the Virgin to the Child, a pulpit of drowning coming from chartreuse from Labastide-Saint-Pierre.

old Houses

Several houses in the borough like in Bordeneuve, Graded, Guillotte, Pétrinal, and the manor of Sépat present architectural characters personalized: attic windows, casings, consoles with triglyphes, hoods with arcades, pilasters, ionic capitals, frontages neo-classic

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Tarn-et-Garonne

External bonds

Web site of Campsas
Campsas on the site of the national geographical Institute
Campsas on the site of INSEE
Campsas on the site of Quid
Localization of Campsas on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Campsas on Mapquest

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