Mélagues

Mélagues is a common French, located in the department of the Aveyron and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Mélagais.

Geography

Mélagues is the commune more in the south of Aveyron, very isolated in the valley from the Nuéjouls to the foot from the Monts from Lacaune. The commune is bordering on the watershed the Mediterranean-Atlantic, the water surface of the Nuéjouls go to the Atlantique, their waters seepage go to the the Mediterranean.

History

To the Revolution, the parishes of Mélagues and Saint-Pierre-of-Cats formed integral part of the community of Brusque, set up then in marquisat of Abrupt-Fayet. The parish of Saint-Benoit-in Arnac was an appendix of Saint-Pierre-of-Cats.

After the Revolution, the commune included/understood the territories of the current communes of Arnac-on-Dourdou and of Tauriac-of-Camarès.

It is in 1872 that the commune of Mélagues was divided and that the communes of Arnac-on-Dourdou were created and of Tauriac-with-Camarès.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Saint Martin's day Church 19th century whose decoration of the chorus is baroque.
Church Saint-Pierre-of-Cats the 19th century whose bell-tower is néo-novel.
Vault Saint-Maurice de Cartayrade 19th century.
Point of view on the the Mediterranean, the Large Causses and the the Cevennes since the collar of Thalys .

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Aveyron
Regional natural park of the Large Causses

External bonds

Mélagues on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mélagues on the site of INSEE
Mélagues on the site of Quid
Localization of Mélagues on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mélagues on Mapquest
Work of local history consultable in line
genealogy of Mélagues

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