Larressingle

Larressingle is a common French, located in the department of the Gers and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Larressinglois.

Geography

History

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

Except way of the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle , stage impossible to circumvent nowadays.
One comes from Condom, the next commune is Beaumont-on-the Ose , and its Bridge of Artigues.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Old residence of the bishops of Condom. One often calls Larressingle the Carcassonne of Gers .

This delicious village, one of the jewels of the Gascogne, east girds of a polygonal rempart* of 270 m almost intact turn.

the bridge of Artigue in the vicinity, is classified with the World heritage UNESCO.

Larressingle is member of the Association of the Plus beautiful villages of France.

The origin of the name Larressingle

According to the legend, this strengthened village of the XIII° century would draw its name from the Gallo-Roman time. A Roman legion finding resistance vis-a-vis the local population would have had as an order of their lieutenant " Retro singuli" meaning, behind, one by one…

Its History

Larressingle enters the history at the beginning of the XI° century. The abbot Hugues, founder of the abbey of Condom, leaves his abbey load of Condom and fact gift with his successor of his grounds of Larressingle. Thus the abbots then bishops of Condom will become the lords of the places.

Its architecture

The drawbridge which preceded it is replaced today by a fixed bridge framed of two narrow pillars the walls sometimes still surrounded by curtains and crenels are reinforced by turns carrées.
Its trapezoidal mass on four levels, flanked of a hexagonal turret, is bored coupled windows or with mullions; the interior, ruined, lets see in overhang some monumental chimneys.

The church

The castle has a Romance church dedicated to St Sigismond. With the XII° century, one replaces the primitive church by a church with the defense work. Indeed, a room refuge located on the floor was accessible by a staircase located behind the small door, on the right of the entry. A passage with the keep was possible since this room refuge.

The church is made up of two parts. When one enters the church, one reaches directly in the chorus of the primitive church, with his vault in half dome. To be able to build the keep, it was necessary to cut the primitive church and to truncate it on the level of its transept. The bedside was then broken and the church lengthened towards the east to regain what it had lost towards the west. Thus two spans in broken cradle were added in XIIIe century.

The Camp of Medieval Seat of the Machines of the Middle Ages

A camp of medieval seat settled with the access of the city. A tower of seat protects the camping made up of a palisade with machines from war: stone quarry, arranges, precision balance, crossed out or couillard, bombardelle, gun serpentine. But also, a shooting range to the arc, the crossbow and the javelin, craftsmen,…

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Gers
List of war memorials French surmounted by a cock
List of French churches to campenard

External bonds

Larressingle: “the city of the machines of the Middle Ages”
Larressingle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Larressingle on the site of INSEE
Larressingle on the site of Quid
Localization of Larressingle on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Larressingle on Mapquest

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