Montbolo
Montbolo (Catalan: Montboló ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Eastern Pyrenees and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Bolomontains.
Geography
Montbolo is located in the southern part of the solid mass of the Aspres, with approximately three kilometers in the north of Amélie-the-Baths and ten kilometers in the south of Taulis by the road.
History
The site of Montbolo is occupied since Prehistory, as attest it inter alia the Cave of Balma (Catalan word indicating a cave) which preserves vestiges going up at the Neolithic . These vestiges were fortuitously discovered in 1969. They include/understand inter alia a big number of ceramics fragments, osseous fragments and remainders of paintings rupestres.
The village itself is mentioned for the first time in 941 in a document emanate from the lord of Camélas (or 967 according to the Cazes Abbot), and the church is founded a few years afterwards. It is mentioned for the first time in 993. The seigniory becomes then the property of several successives.
families
Montbolo thrives of with, as the strong increase in the population attests it during these années.
The commune will be then victim of the rural migration. Indeed, because of the broken relief, the village does not have aucunes cultivable grounds and thus exploited the forests of the solid mass.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
the church Saint-Andrew high at, then was strengthened the few years afterwards. Its gouttereaux walls were then elevated in order to build a covered way there, and two turns barlongues were built on the walls is and western.
The building is to be brought closer to the church of Espira-in-the Agly: rectangular form (approximately 30 meters out of 10 meters), and two twin apses spared in the thickness of the Eastern wall. Niches moreover were built in the thickness of the side walls (two in north and two in the south).
The interior was altered at the time baroque: a platform was established in the west (it carries the date of 1627), and of the retables took seat in the niches and the chorus, blocking the apses then. In 1900 a restoration was undertaken, aiming at returning to the building are aspect of origin (the retables were however preserved, and the high altar was not moved - a plate embedded in the platform attests this work). Enough recently, the southernmost gate was inopportunely restored out of white marble, making disappear several elements from the gate of origine.
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