Nasbinals

Nasbinals is a common French, located in the department of the Lozere and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Nasbinalais.

Geography

Nasbinals is a small town of Aubrac located on the plate at the foot of the collar of Aubrac and two steps of the lakes of Aubrac without disavowing its attachment with the Gévaudan.

Nasbinals is located at 8km village of Aubrac, which even is located him at 8 km of the village of Saint-Chély-with Aubrac located in the Aveyron and sheltered in the valley of the Bès, and have as a common history the Dômerie d' Aubrac and the way of Compostelle.

Nasbinals is located at the limit of three areas: Auvergne, Languedoc-Roussillon and Rouergue.

Administration

Demography

Heraldic

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle . One comes from Marchastel, the next stage being Aubrac and the Dômerie d' Aubrac .

History

Nasbinals belongs to ancient Aubrac: the Mount-Hélanus and was placed in country Gabales (those whose César said that they were the survivors of Alésia).

The origin of Nasbinals would go back to the 8th century. At the 11th century a priory around the church testifies to a village community. In 1074 the monks of Saint-Victor of Marseilles made hatch the robust Romance church of style auvergnat of which they made to one their priories. Placed under the patronage of the virgin, Sainte-Marie de Nasbinals offered a sure shelter before crossing, perilous by bad weather, of the plate of Aubrac.

Between its foundation with the 11th century and that of Aubrac, with the threshold of 12th, the role of this house was absolutely essential; the priory victorin according to was the obstacle crossed that of Saint-Chély-D' Aubrac.

In 1135 the priory is attached to Dômerie d' Aubrac, and this until the Révolution.

The Romance church of the 11th century.

Typically in the style of the novel auvergnat, built with 11th and 12th century, then altered with 14th, out of brown basalt under its schist roofs.

It develops a harmonious plan of single nave, included/understood by a transept on which is grafted the principal apse preceded by a right span and two absidioles.

The octagonal bell-tower caps crossing. Inside, the cupola covers the crossing delimited by four strong doubled arcades which support of the massive columns.

The polygonal circumference of the apse is enjolivé of a gallery of small blind arcades in semicircular arch. Barrel vaults, except for the nave, remade in warheads at the time Gothic. A Christ of the 16th century and polychrome furniture of 18th.

The gate, with double curve in semicircular arch, opens at midday on the place of the village: three of these capitals are carved of foliage, the fourth, remarkable, presents the combat of a Sagittarius and a lancer.

It depended on a monastic foundation of Saint-Victor of Marseilles.

Pierrounet

Born in 1832 and died in 1907. Bonesetter (i.e. healer) who contributed to the national and even international fame of Nasbinals. After having developed its talent and its knowledge of the bodies near the animals, it is tested on its similar and its successes impress its contemporaries since patients of the whole world come to consult it.

To discover

the Lakes (" Souveyrols" , " Salhiens" , " Born" and " Holy Andéol ").

the cascade of Deroc

Its landscapes and its products of the soil (of which the famous Aligot).

Others

Holy Andéol
Saint-Andéol-with-Berg

See too

Common of Lozere

External bonds

Site of the town hall of Nasbinals
Site of the tourist office of Nasbinals
Bibliography on Aubrac, author Advielle (Bnf bond): consult Pages 368 to 376
Voir also the geographical description of Aubrac: (Bnf bond) Consult pages 61 to 78

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