Famars

Famars is a common French, located in the department of the Northern (59) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Its inhabitants is called Buckwheats, Sarrasines.

Geography

Commune located on the Rhônelle

History

Famars is known in antiquity under the name of Fano Martis . This city which belonged to the Gaulle Belgium sheltered a military camp. The excavations showed the prasence of a Aqueduc, of Roman Thermes. It was connected to the main road Bavay - Cambric by a minor road which is noted on the Table of Peuntinger. At the Lower Empire it has a castrum whose wall is still visible. At that time it has workshops of potters specialized in the jugs in clear paste. It remains important at the time mérovingienne, and will have then a castle, the Château of Famars and the thermal baths are in its park. The company of shareholders made up in 1823 to carry out the excavations of them goes bankrupt.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the thermal baths of Famars, rectangular construction of 70m on 40m are a public corporation which dates from the 2nd century. They consist of a cold picine, a tepid part, three hot parts and a court of service containing their device of chaffage. The transformation of the picine into picine heated by an external hearth. An interior court was partly a palestre bordered to uncouloir and of a frigidarium comprising a cold part and a picine. The site of the latrines was not found.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

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

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