Nogaro

Nogaro is a common French, located in the department of the Gers and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its name comes from a plantation of Noyer S “nogarolium”.

Its inhabitants is called Nogaroliens.

Geography

Commune located on the Midour, the Izaute and on the Trunk road 124 to 45 km in the South-west of Condom

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Manciet , the next commune is Barcelona-of-Gers the .

The old way of the “Jacayres” passes by the main street, whose each house (as with Puente Reina, in Navarre) is built in length and very narrow. All have a garden (or interior court) which one baptizes here of the pretty name of “Ayguecéu”, “the water of the sky”.

History

Nogaro is a Sauveté (where the “peace of God reigned”, where any war was prohibited) Archevêché of Auch. Austinde, which became holy and was Archevêque of Auch, created in 1055 Nugarolium, “the city of the walnut trees. ”
As of 1050, at the first days of the Sauveté of Nogaro, merchants (" negociatores") there discharged a Péage (whose, made rare, the pilgrims were exempted in Manciet). It is that the city being with the crossroads of the roads of Auch and Toulouse, of Bayonne and Eauze, one was to thus find the products of all there the Foire S: salt of Dirty-with-Béarn, Herring S, Salmon S, Sturgeon S of the Atlantic , Cloth, Iron and Cheese of the the Pyrenees, Oil of Olive, Fig S, Pepper, Ginger, Amber come from the south, was this with the slow step of the Bœuf S, and the local productions, Vaisselle undoubtedly, oil of Noix, Blé, Vin especially.

Principal city of the feudal Armagnac, it was equipped with a college to the XVIe century, and was devastated in 1569 by the bands Protesting are of Montgomery.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Collegial Saint Nicolas's Day.
It is a Romance church of the 12th century, devoted in 1061, with a Clocher - turn of white stone, it has the relics. In spite of the devastations of Montgomery, it keeps a beautiful gate and its Tympan carved at the 12th century, with a Christ in majesty in a mandorle, surrounded by a tétramorphe (symbols of the evangelists), of Toulouse invoice, and in bottom of lamp, an old man and a Sirène holding its queue.
Triple arches in half-cradle was rebuilt out of bricks in 1662, the columns with the gothic arches preserve their Romance capitals: sheets of acanthus, centaurs, musicians, Daniel in the lion's den, Zachée in the tree, Jesus in the boat of the fishermen.

Circuit of Nogaro : Circuit of Formula 1, used for test of Formula 1 and various races;

Others

ACBA : Aéro Club of Low Armagnac
the vocational school of Artagnan de Nogaro one of rare to form Mechanics of race
Éco-marathon Shell being held on the Circuit of Nogaro

Personalities related to the commune

Thierry Lacroix: player of Rugby to XV

See too

Common of Gers
Championship of France of the 2nd federal division
international Championship of Formula 3000 1990
Race landaise

External bonds

the site of the city
Tourist bureau
Newspaper of the city
Nogaro on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nogaro on the site of INSEE
Nogaro on the site of Quid
Localization of Nogaro on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Nogaro on Mapquest

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