Forty (Herault)

For other directions of this word, to see Forty (homonymy).

Forty , in Occitan Notched , is a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called the " Quarantais".

Geography

The commune is located at the south-west of the department of Herault, close to the limit with the Aude, in the north of the Canal of the South.

History

1887: Construction of the castle of Roueïre.

1898: Erection of the wind mill of Bowlful, with the field of Roueïre, registered with the additional inventory of Historic buildings in 1987.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

  • Church co. Abbey Marie , of the 11th century. Sight on Minervois.

  • Old fortifications of the old village.

  • Cross of the Disease

  • Cross of Peyral

  • Castle of Roueïre

The castle was built in 1887, for the period ostentation of the vine growing in the Biterrois, by the family of Andoque.

  • Wind of Bowlful

Set up with the castle of Roueïre in 1898.

  • Field of the Pond Fages

Hamlets and localities

  • Fargoussières

  • Fontanche
  • Roueïre
  • Saliès
  • Malviès
  • Pond Fages
  • Curatier
  • Pech Menel
  • Bars

Personalities related to the commune

Robert Fauré , painter.

Louis Cahuzac , clarinetist, international leader. The college located at Forty door its name.

Twinnings

See too

  • Common of Herault

External bonds

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

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