Surba

Surba is a common French, located in the department of the Ariège and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Surbatois.

Geography

General presentation

The village of Surba, typical and very sunny village-street, is the first which one meets in the valley of Courbière, while coming from Tarascon-on-Ariège. Populated approximately 400 inhabitants, it is nested on the buttresses of impressive cliffs of the mountain of Soudour, site dedicated to the climbing and the ornithological observation of the raptors (vultures, gypaètes, eagles). It comprises also a hamlet downstream from the village, the hamlet of Florac.

The art lovers religious will be able to admire in Surba the Saint Nicolas's Day Church, characteristic of the first southernmost Romanesque art. The chorus is decorated of a remarkable retable of the 17th century whose topic is the Crucifixion. A vault datatnt of 1676 is also close to the center of the village. In the hamlet of Florac, one can admire certain vestiges of the castle of Florac, mentioned for the first time in official writings in 1401.

At the end of the village, the " Communal" offer to the walker an adventure playground for children and a tennis in the shade of the plane trees.

History

Some historical elements established according to the work of Claudine Pailhès, Ariège of the Counts and Cathares, Milan, Toulouse, 1992.

The first mention of the commune goes back to 961, where " the freehold of Sdrebane" seems a possession of the former Priory of Saint-Volusien (Foix).

Two later mentions, of 1182 and 1294 announce the fastening of the village and the hamlet to the Seigniory of Quié.

At the end of the 14th century, the castle of Florac belongs to the wife of Guilhem d' Arnave, Seigneur of Miglos, Brunissen de Ravat (Reduction), whose family will be soon related with the family of the Counts de Foix.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Church Saint Nicolas of Surba (Romanesque art): Imposing mass with a wall-belfry, the church is built on the end of the glacial moraine. Inside one finds a nave roomy, which leads to broad and single semicircular apse. At the 17th century, the church is decorated of a sumptuous retable representing the Crucifixion. To XIXe the current vault, damaged by a hurricane in 1976 and restored is added thereafter.

Vault 1676

Castle of Florac (14th century)

Rock of Sédour or Soudour (1043m): Impressive escarpée rock mass, which shelters also the prehistoric cave of Bédeilhac, it is an ideal place for the practice of the climbing and especially the observation of the large raptors, like the bearded gypaètes or the vultures.

Personalities related to the commune

Patrick Massicot

Joseph SALVAT (1889-1972) Priest and professor at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, it was before all a large poet félibrige and defender of the language occitane.

See too

Common of Ariège

External bonds

Surba on the site of the national geographical Institute
Surba on the site of INSEE
Surba on the site of Quid
Localization of Surba on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Surba on Mapquest

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