Lauzerte

Lauzerte is a common French, located in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Lauzertins.

Its name would result from the Gaulois " lauzes' and of the old man Patois " eda" , eminence.

Geography

Located on old the Trunk road 653

Of its top, Lauzerte supervises since the 12th century the Route Cahors Moissac and the Rivière S Barguelonnette and Lendou. Lauzerte is a country house at the same time one of the Plus beautiful villages of France.

History

Raymond VI of Toulouse, which had there already a Château, there founded a country house, by conceding habits to him.

She knew since the Guerre One hundred Year old and the wars of religion: also was necessary it to rebuild its church S. At the time of the wars of religion, the lord of Duras of the party huguenot takes the city thanks to an opening in the walls of the city, with the site of current the " street of the brèche". The totality of the 597 inhabitants, men, women and children will be killed on the order of Lasted.

In the house of the merchants, street of the Gendarmerie, the shops occupied the ground floor, offering to the customers the Drap S of flax of the Quercy with the spice S come from the India S, the Blé or the Vin of Cahors. These tradesmen devoted themselves to wear, lending to the English the payment of the ransoms of the prisoners. In the same street, the projections of the house with Colombage recall that this manner of building saved on the tax.

Administration

Demography

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Montcuq, the next commune is Moissac , and its abbey Saint-Pierre

Places and monuments

  • Perched on its headland, opening its windows on a panorama liberally offered since the Weephole or the walk of Eveilhé.

  • One can see there, in the old city, of the houses of the 13th century, with frontages of wood and coupled windows, others of the Renaissance to mullioned windows, others still formant rampart; Half-timbering S and white stones, and of the downward streets bordered of history.

  • a tilted covered way leads to the place of the Angles to commercial covers; more recent esplanades offer their panorama.

  • the vault of the old people's home,

Rebuilt towards 1830, accommodated pilgrims and beggars on the way of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle.

  • the church of the Carmelite friars

At the exit of the suburb of Auriac, it keeps the name of the religious order of Carmel which founded here a convent at the 14th century. It has a flat bedside and a single nave, rebuilt in 1673.
One sees the Virgin there giving the Rosaire to Saint Simon Stock and Sainte Therese d' Avila; and in the side niches, the Prophet Elie and Holy Jean of the Cross. It has a Retable.

  • the church St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

In the high city, it has a very sober square bell-tower.
It presents two frontages of 14th and 19th centuries. It was increased and arched warheads of 1591 with 1654: apse with five sides, broad single Nave with three spans flanked of six Vault S, rectangular Bell-tower. Inside, the Christ in Cuir is the work of a prisoner in exchange of its libération.
It has a Retable in Bois gilded devoted to the Vierge, true masterpiece of the Baroque art.

  • the Monastery of the capuchins , monastery of monks beggars, founded in XIIeme century, it was occupied by these capuchins until 1789. Being made drive out monastery by the French revolutionists, the latter are disperserent through France.Une legend tells that since this date, the Calixte Father, then " chef" monastery returns every evening of Christmas at Minuit to the twelfth stroke of midnight.

The monastery received the trophy of " The gold " Tower; in 1980, for the restoration of this place.

The village of Lauzerte includes/understands one of the 5 stations Weather-France of the department. It records the temperature, the rain, the wind like any other weather parameter. Its exposure, very prone to the wind, has permy to him to raise a gust higher than 100km/h on July 28th, 2006, following a violent one storm going up of Gers.

Personalities related to the commune

See too


External bonds

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

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