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Geography

Located in the valley of the Worms, to about thirty kilometers in the North-East of Cahors, the village is in the middle of the Regional natural park of Causses of Quercy. The hamlets of Fages and Verliez are located on this Causse, plate calcareous whose vegetation is of the type Steppe. Its communes bordering are Saint-Saver-the-Valley in north, Saint-Cernin in the North-East, Lauzès and Cras in south-east. The commune is crossed by the secondary road 13 which leads to Lauzès on a side and is connected to RN 20 and by the RD 32 which skirts the valley of the towards.

History

The apparently founded village towards 800 by populations of the Whiting village on the current commune of Worms, fleeing the attacks of Buckwheats, is located within a framework at the very rich history: dominated by the Rock of Murcens, where seat imposing a Oppidum Gallic, it is surrounded by many prehistoric sites (Grotte of the Pech Merle or of Cougnac for most known are with less 20km) and is located a few kilometers upstream Make Polémie, the collecting of the aqueduct of Divona (flourishing the Cahors). Stage of the pilgrimage of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle, at the south of Rocamadour, it was on the passage of the Templiers and Hospitaliers which had grounds and buildings in the village and of the commanderies around (Soulomès, Cras, Bastit…). Camp of cutting off at the time of the War One hundred Year old, it did not cease being redrawn by the ceaseless attacks, and even the flood of 1610 which left intact only the Church and the " House of the templiers".

More recently, the village empties its inhabitants at the time of the Rural migration. A particularly active welfare office deals with the people with the weak incomes.

Few documents remain today on the history of the village from which the files disappeared in 1610, at the time of the exceptional rising of the Worms, all the former documents come from the files diocésaines of Cahors which allowed the conservation of this memory.

Administration

|- | align=right| since 2000 |||| Luc Faurie-Grépon ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1945 || 1955 || Louis Garrigou ||align=" center" | || Senator |- | align=right| 1929 || 1940 || Louis Garrigou ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1919 || 1928 || Paul Lacaze ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1900 || 1917 || Edouard Pradié ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1863 || 1870 || Paul-Guillaume Camber ||align=" center" | || |-

| colspan=" 4" align=" center" | the former data are not yet known. |}

Notes: Concerning the predecessors of Me Luc Faurie-Grépon, mayor current of the commune, please consult the municipal files available to the Town hall. In addition, as in many villages, it is not rare to see elected the intellectuals with the load of mayor, thus the Faurie families, Grépon and Garrigou is particularly represented.

Demography

The village is composed of the borough, in bottom of valley, and two hamlets located on Causse: Fages and Verliez.

Verliez always counted a score of inhabitants, whereas Fages remained independent village a long time (until 1789). Today still, Fages counts as many inhabitants as the borough.

Places and monuments

The strengthened church of the 15th century contains frescos of Master discovered in 2001 at the time of consolidation work of the vault. It is the principal building having resisted the ravages of time. A long time a refuge for the inhabitants, it is today in the middle of the classified village (since 1979 under the historic buildings).

Historical introduction

The church depended on the abbey of Marcilhac-on-That. It belonged to the archpriest of Cahors and the open congregation of Saint Saver the valley. Ruined during the War One hundred Year old, the church of Martin Saint would have been repaired or rebuilt at the 15th century. The gate of entry would go back to this time. To the 19th century, in 1847, a visit of the bishop indicates that the church is in good state but curiously, in 1877, one builds a vault joined with the bell-tower on its southern face “to be used as Contrefort with the old bell-tower of the church”.

Description of the building

The church Saint Martin de Vers is registered with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings since April 1979. The church, directed, is established in the middle of the small village of Martin Saint, in the steepsided valley of the Worms, not far from the brook. The church of Saint Martin de Vers is re-elected like a building of XVe, time to which it would have been rebuilt. There remains, however, few testimonys of this time apart from the gate of entry and perhaps of the upper part of the tower.

The church of Saint Martin de Vers is in fact a concerning composite building several work campaigns. It results from it an extremely heterogeneous plan and a masonry, of which the oldest part seems to correspond to the gouttereaux walls of the current Nef (vestiges of medieval masonry and flat buttress Romance in the south, Romance gate in north?), which, arched of a broken cradle, supports imposing it bell-tower turn which dominates the valley and announces the village. It should be noted, in addition, that in the east, the angles of the tower form a bevel, which perhaps corresponds to the prolongation of a round form perhaps corresponding to the Abside of a primitive church.

Associative and cultural activities

The votive festival takes place every year August 15th and 16th and gathers more than 500 people come from the villages neighborhood. Organized by the Festival Committee, it is famous for its pastoral meal, its balls and its fireworks…

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Batch

External bonds

Saint-Martin-of-Towards on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Martin-of-Towards on the site of INSEE
Saint-Martin-of-Towards on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Martin-of-Towards on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Martin-of-Towards on Mapquest

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