Dovecotes (Herault)

See also: Dovecotes

Colombiers is a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called the " Colombiérains".

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Pond of Montady (1) (classified since 1974), divided today between the communes of Dovecotes and Montady, is a natural basin which covers more than 400 hectares. It was drained in XIIIe century, between 1248 and 1268, by the lords of Montady and Dovecotes, associated with middle-class men of Béziers. Each ray is a drain which leads the water of the periphery to the center towards a circular ditch, the redondèl (2). Center leaves the principal ditch, large the mayor (3), built with against slope, which evacuates all water. The ditch is prolonged under the hill of the oppidum of Ensérune by a 1.364 meters length underground aqueduct, then, again with open sky, it reaches the old ponds of Poilhes and Capestang (4).

(1) Jean-wolf Abbot, '' With the conquest of the ponds. Fitting-out in Mediterranean Languedoc (XIIe-XVe century) '', University Presses of Mirail, Toulouse, 2006, coll Tempus, 331 p.
(2) In Occitan indicates a circle concentrique.
(3) In Occitan reccueillement indicates a channel of eaux.
(4) Air photographs: 1 and 2

Personalities related to the commune

sancho: artist with the talent impossible to circumvent, creative of a single style

See too

  • Common of Herault

External bonds

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

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