The Grenade-on-Garonne

Blazon

Blazon: Of azure, sown wheat grains and flowers of gold lily.

Geography

Located at the north of the department of the Haute-Garonne (31) common bordering with the Tarn-et-Garonne (82) and is located at 25 km to the north-north-west of Toulouse at the Confluent of the Save and the the Garonne.

History

The city is a founded country house in 1290 on the initiative of the monks Cistercien S of the Abbaye of Grandselve, who had founded Beaumont-with-Lomagne ten years before. The city is the subject of an agreement of Paréage between the Moine S and the Sénéchal representing of the king.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The city is a country house built according to a plan characteristic with perpendicular streets delimiting of the square small islands of 55 side meters.

the market covered (classified historic building) occupies the central small island; it is 14th century. It is largest and oldest market of France. Since the the Middle Ages, it shelters a market Saturday morning. During several centuries, the first stage of the market comprised rooms where the consul S met and where one preserved certainly measurements of grain in the residences of the provost and of the guards. In 1417, the king Charles VI had made it possible to the consuls “to have and make a clock with bell”. Like the majority of the country house S of South-west, Grenade safeguarded its market because it is a meeting place of all the generations and that since centuries. It accommodates every saturday the market. Balls as of other demonstrations are held to with it regularly. In 1992 and 1993, the ground as well as the pillars were renovated and restored. Recent studies showed that the timber were cut in 1293.
the church Notre Dame, whose building work started the year of the foundation of the city to be completed in 1376, of Gothic Style is built out of bricks. Its Clocher is of octagonal form.
Hippodrome of Marianne

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Dieuzaide, Photographer, was born
Gaston there from Roquemaurel, naval officer, second of the forwarding of Dumont d' Urville in the Antarctic
Dominique Count then Marquis of Pérignon (1754-1818) Maréchal of Empire.
Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, appointed with the General states then member of Constituent during the Revolution
Jean Cayrou, Musician (cf Auditorium Jean Cayrou with Colomiers (31))
Jacques de Cazales, Speaker

See too

Common of the Haute-Garonne
Championship of France of the 3rd federal division
Old communes of the Haute-Garonne
Hippodrome

External bonds

Site of the Town hall of the Grenade-on-Garonne
the Grenade-on-Garonne on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Grenade-on-Garonne on the site of INSEE
the Grenade-on-Garonne on the site of Quid
Localization of the Grenade-on-Garonne on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Grenade-on-Garonne on Mapquest

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