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Geography

Located at the limit of the Rouergue and the borders of the Albigensian and the Quercy, Saint-Antonin is one of the oldest medieval cities which survived the risks of the history. It is surrounded by Bastide S and borders the western part of the National forest of Grésigne

Its site is protected in the throats from the Aveyron and cliffs from the Rock from Anglars.

History

Saint Antonin is a city with the prestigious past, his name comes from the baptized valley Nobilis Vallis by the Romans, it shelters the oldest town hall of France, it is a city medieval E authentic, whose lanes and alleys have more than 8 centuries, a whole inheritance of houses with warhead S, Colombages, roofed passageways… and whole of classified buildings or registered voters with the registers of the national inheritance.

The site is protected, it is that of the Gorges of Aveyron and the cliff S of the Rock of Anglars, of the Cirque of Bône… on one of the ways of Saint Jacques de Compostelle.

The lords of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley embraced the Albigensian Hérésie, which was worth at the town of be invaded by Simon de Montfort in 1212. In 1226, it entered the royal field; this time was going to be the apogee of its economic prosperity. But, as from the 17th century, the inhabitants lost little by little their privileges and the influence of the city decreased.

In 1351 the English invaded Saint-Antonin and at the time of the wars of religion, the inhabitants had still to suffer: follower of the Reform, the city attended a fight baited between catholics and Protestants. In 1622 Louis XIII seizes the city; in 1681, all the Protesting S were excluded from the political council and the consulate of Saint-Antonin.

Caption of Saint-Antonin

One tells that the first evangelist of the Rouergue was Saint-Antonin. He succeeds quickly in his task, and in spite of supplications of the inhabitants of Noble-Valley, he wanted to then carry the Évangile to Pamiers, his fatherland. Alas! in this ungrateful city, the saint learned with his costs that no one is not Prophète in his country. Its savage compatriots decapitated it and threw its remainders in the Ariège. Angels hastened to collect the worthy relics and two large eagle S white guided the boat where they were placed. The miraculous Barque slipped gently on the floods of Ariège, then went up the course of the Tarn and the Aveyron. It stopped finally with the Confluent of the Cap and Aveyron (one called then this confluence Condate, word Celtic who means precisely confluent), by one night transparent of be, étincelante of star S.

In this time, reigned a rich person and powerful count on the " Noble-valley " , the valley of the Aveyron. Its name was Festus. He recognized the hand of God in this marvellous voyage and made deposit the Relique S of the Martyr in a luxurious mounting where later an abbey was high.

A monastic community developed very early, seems it, around the relics of Antonin saint. Thanks to generosities of the Carolingian sovereigns , in particular those of Pip of Aquitaine, the Abbey counted at the 9th century among the three large Abbaye S Bénédictine S of the Rouergue, at the sides of Conques and Vabres.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Saint-Antonin
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley is the birthplace of the knight the Raymond-Jordan (XIIe century) of the family of the Viscounts of this village.
Andre Laban, underwater painter.
Lucien Cadène, famous painter.

See too

Common of Tarn-et-Garonne

External bonds

Consult Noble Internet site of Saint-Antonin Valley
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley on the site of INSEE
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley on Mapquest

Romance sculpture of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley
megaliths around Saint-Antonin-Noble-Valley

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