The Puy-Our-Lady

the Puy-Our-Lady is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Commune located at the south of the department, in extreme cases of the Two-Sevres from which it is separated by a brook in the south and the east by the Thouet, Montreuil-Bellay is with six kilometers, Gifted-the-Fountain and Thouars with twelve kilometers and the town of Saumur to twenty-three kilometers. a strong majority of the population is in the borough, approximately a thousand, the remainder being distributed in the villages contiguous of Sanziers, Chavannes and Cix The surface of the commune is of 1604 hectares including 540 of vines, the remainder being in cereal cultures

History

  • protohistoric Presence.
  • Podio beatae Mariae at the 12th century, Puy-the-Mountain in 1793.
  • Chapter rested by Louis XI at the 15th century. City closed until 1784.

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts).

Places and monuments

  • perched Village.
  • Vestiges of I' enclosure.
  • Houses 16th century, old relays of pilgrims.
  • Underground-refuges under the borough and in Sanziers.
  • Castle of the Lily with Sanziers: press.
  • Flees underground with Hupponnière.
  • Mill cavier in ruin.
  • Collegial 12th and 13th century, Gothic angevin: bell-tower 15th century, tympanum carved 12th century, flat bedside, 3 naves, vaults angevines 12th century, chapter house 15th century; " Holy Belt of Vierge" , paid of Jerusalem to the 12th century, miraculous for the expectant mothers, in a case 16th century: pilgrimage the dim. after September 8th, celebrates with the Middle Ages; stalls 16th century, fabrics 16th and 17th centuries, statues 17th century.
  • Vault of the cemetery 15th century.
  • Old vault of the convent of the cordelières (barn).

Resources and productions

  • Pastures, wood.
  • Mixed-farming, vine, truck farming, orchards.
  • Mushroom bed of the Saint-Maur Sucker in Sanziers: visit.
  • AOC "Wines of Anjou, of Saumur, and Saumur mousseux".
  • Honey.
  • Agricultural cooperative.

See too

  • Common of Maine-et-Loire
In Puy our Lady, also a site on the breeding of the silkworm, tradition of the Loire Valley http://www.relais-du-bien-etre.com

Bond

  • Site of the city
  • Photographs, history, topicality http://www.blogg.org/blog-50642.html

External bonds

  • the Puy-Our-Lady on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the Puy-Our-Lady on the site of INSEE
  • the Puy-Our-Lady on the site of Quid
  • Localization of the Puy-Our-Lady on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on the Puy-Our-Lady on Mapquest

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