Saint-Cirq-Lapopie

See also: Saint-Cirq

Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a common French, located in the department of the Lot in the area the Midday-Pyrenees in Quercy.

Its inhabitants is called Saint-Cirquois.

Geography

Commune located at 30 km in the East of Cahors in the middle of the Regional natural park of Causses of Quercy,
The village Médiéval overhangs the Lot.

History

There was perhaps a Pompéjac romaine.

Later, three families shared the Seigneurie. This triple seigniory was not without posing some problems at the time of the Croisade against the Albigensians.

Cardaillac adopted the Count de Toulouse,
While Popie and Gourdon were combined with Simon de Montfort.
In 1251, one of the lords, Bernard de Castelnau, was condemned by the Inquisition to the perpetual prison to have supported the heretics.

During the War One hundred Year old, a Hugues de Cardaillac was in the French camp, it was a large technician of artillery.
In 1471, Louis XI made dismantle the Château of Raymond d' Hébrard who had taken party for the duke of Guyenne.

This old diagram was renewed at the time of the wars of religion: Cardaillac became the chief of the Protesting S of the Languedoc, while Saint-Sulpice remained Catholique.
Friends however, they meant themselves to prohibit any violence in their common city, but in 1580, breaking the truce, the Huguenot S seized the castle in top, that Henri de Navarre made demolish.

Old chief town of the one of the four Viscount S of the Quercy

The pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Cabrerets, the next commune is Cahors , the cathedral Saint-Etienne and the Pont Valentré.
Shortly after the jacquets were joined by those which had borrowed the valley of the Batch.

Stage


Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • One of the more beautiful villages of France

  • It is one of the tourist places of the Batch. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a village-museum almost entirely classified and well-known of the artists, of which André Breton, which settled with old the Auberge of the Marines .

  • At the top of its cliff, which dominates the Batch of 80 meters with ruins of three Château X, and a powerful church of the 15th century with Romance Abside, square keep and turret of staircase. Lanes escarpées at the houses in corbelling and pointed roofs.

  • Houses medieval E of the 14th century

  • church
  • Seen on the valley of the Batch
  • the Rignault museum, where in particular temporary exhibitions of Contemporary art proceed. Emile-Joseph Rignault (1874-1962), impassioned art and collector, made of it gift in 1946 at the General advice of the Batch.
  • the Daura House. House of the painter Pierre Daura offered by his Martha daughter to the Midday-Pyrenees District council so that there is installed a residence for young artists and a place of exposure.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Batch

External bonds

  • Tourist bureau of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie

  • Saint-Cirq-Lapopie on the site of the national geographical Institute

  • Saint-Cirq-Lapopie on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Cirq-Lapopie on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Cirq-Lapopie on Mapquest

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