Saint-Martory

Saint-Martory (occitan: Sent Martòri ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Saint-Martoriens.

Blazon

Blazon: Of sand to the hammer with length handle of money posed in band.

Geography

Saint-Martory is a village of the Comminges. He is located at 70 km in the Western South of Toulouse and at 60 km of the Spain. The historical borough is built on left bank of the the Garonne to the foot of the rock face of Escalère. The suburb is him developed on Right Bank, in the Plaine Alluvion naire of the Garonne.
  • Access:
In car, since Toulouse or Tarbes, by the French Highway A64 left (Saint-Martory) and Trunk road 117.
In Train, Direct access by the Station of Saint-Martory (4 trains per day) or indirect by the Station of Boussens (8 km).

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Canal of Saint-Martory

  • the masterly Pont on the Garonne (1724) is the work of the Intendant of Etigny with which one owes also the 2 triumphal arches (old doors of the city).
  • the family of Montpezat, Count de Comminges, successively built two Château X in Saint-Martory: the first (XIe century) overhangs the city on the hill of Montpezat, the other (Renaissance) is built on Right Bank of the Garonne.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Norbert Casteret: regarded as the father of the modern Speleology, Norbert Casteret (1897 - 1987) was also prehistorian and writer. It is most famous of Saint-Martoryens.

In 1931, it proves that the Garonne takes its source with the Hole of Toro (Val of Aran). Norbert Casteret wrote forty works of which My underground life (1961). One owes him the discovery in 1929, of oldest the Statue S of the world in the Grotte of Montespan (31).

See too

  • Common of the Haute-Garonne

External bonds

  • Saint-Martory on the site of the National Geographical Institute
  • Saint-Martory on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Martory on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Martory on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Martory on Mapquest
  • the official site of Zim Bang Festival, all on the Festival of Bandaged of Saint-Martory but also information on the village

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