Cord-on-Sky

Cord-on-Sky is a common French, located in the department of the Tarn and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Country house built in 1222 by the count de Toulouse Raymond VII of Toulouse, high place of the heresy Cathare, it is a medieval site today very Touristique. Cord-on-sky is one of the Plus beautiful villages of France.

Crossing point of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle

Geography

Cord-on-sky is located in the North-West of the Département of the Tarn in the valley of the Cérou. The commune is on the Trunk road 122 and on left bank of the Cérou affluent of the Aveyron.

History

The country house of Cords, northern military bolt of the county of Toulouse, is built between 1222 and 1229 under the impulse of Raymond VII to rejoin the scattered populations, driven out in particular fortress of Saint-Marcel set fire to by the troops of Simon de Montfort in 1215, at the time of the First crusade of the “Barons of North” against the Albigensians. Because one did not speak at the time of heresy “Cathare” in this country of Langue of oc. At the time of the second Crusade against the Albigensians, the magnificence and the solidity of the ramparts of Cords make move back Humbert de Beaujeu who gives up conquering it.

In accordance with the peace of Paris (1229), Jeanne, only daughter of Raymond VII of Toulouse, married in 1241 Alphonse II of France, Count de Poitiers, brother of the king Louis IX (Saint Louis). The county of Toulouse, hitherto autonomous, is attached to the Crown of France with died of Alphonse II and Jeanne in 1271. Ever conquered, Cordes becomes thus ground of France in 1370. A charter is granted Cordais enabling them to build houses protected by the ramparts. Thus were built some splendid residences between the end of XIIIe and the middle of the 14th century, whose frontages resisted the ravages of time. The architectural unit of the country house, in purest Gothic Style, was worth to him the nickname of “City to the Hundred Warheads”. Its golden age lasts of the 14th century at the 16th century with a maximum of: 6000 inhabitants. Its economy is based on the trade and weaving.

Cords, faithful to “the Church of God” well after roughing-hew it Montségur in 1244, resisted the Inquisition until in 1312, date of its official tender to the Catholic church. The wars of religion of the end of the 16th century cause little damage to the Cords: it is attacked on September 9th 1568 by the baron of Paulin; it pushes back the attack of the Viscount of Bruniquel, in the night from May 22nd to 23rd 1574.

Prosper Mérimée, then charged by Napoleon III with establishing an inventory of the French architectural heritage, visited it. The city woke up again starting from the middle of the 20th century, when artists redécouvrirent it. Albert Camus after having visited it in the Fifties, said “To Cordes, all is beautiful, even the regret”. The city officially became " Cord-on-Ciel" in 1993.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The commune lives thanks to the Tourisme and with the artists who moved into the houses of the village.

Places and monuments

The village is surrounded by four enclosures and several doors as the door of Ormeaux, the door of Jane or the door of the Clock.

This village is known, inter alia, for its well of the market which makes more than 100 meters of depth.
the house of the Large Huntsman is a large remarkable sandstone masonry of which the frontage on three floors. It one of frontages is the carved village. It is currently the seat of the town hall.
Cordes shelters a Musée strange and single in the world: the museum of sugar and the chocolate . It gathers a hundred parts of Art carried out exclusively containing Sucre on topics as various as the Moyen-âge, the Mythologie, the Fleur S, nature, technologies or the tales and legends.

Personalities related to the commune

Paul Quilès: French Politician (PS)

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