Lastours

Lastours is a common French, located in the department of the Aude and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Its inhabitants is called Lastourois.

Geography

The village of Lastours is located in the Département of the Aude at the north of Carcassonne in the valley of the Orbiel. Lastours is in the middle of the Pays of Cabardès between the Rivière of the Orbiel and the torrent of Grésilhou.

History

The human traces of occupation go up with the Préhistoire in a cave called the hole of the city to the foot of the castles of Lastours. The history of the village is related to the various occupations of the Châteaux of Lastours.

  • Lastours has a very great site Cathare with its Châteaux of Lastours composed of four turns from where the origin of its name.

The development of the Métallurgie is known in Lastours since Antiquity. Indeed, the area is rich in minerals of Fer, Cuivre, Plomb and Or and is an important center of mining extraction. The village is surrounded by mining layers:

  • Barrencs de Fournes exploited by the Romans for the Copper and the siver-bearing Lead.
  • Caunettes exploited at the 16th century and the 17th century for the Iron and the Money.
  • Salsigne-Villanière exploited for the Gold] since the middle of the 19th century.

The village is served by a road that starting from 1863. At the 19th century, industry clothier was flourishing in Lastours.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Châteaux of Lastours are four on a calcareous spur of the Cambrien.
  • ruins of a Romance church: Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul de Cabaret.
  • the abandoned village of the 13th century to the foot of the castles in the course of excavation.
  • the old Rabier Factory which manufactured cloth parts until the middle of the century. The factory is used now as place of reception for the stourisms and in particular for the access to the castles of Lastours.
  • the View-point of Montfermier offers an incomparable panorama on the site of the castles, the village and its surroundings.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the family of Lastours de Bernarde was eminently influential in the area before their immigration in Russia and America in 1789. A great part of those left for Russia returned to France in 1917 at the time of Révolution Bolshevik.

See too

  • Common of the Aude

External bonds

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

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