Towards (Batch)

Towards is a common French, located in the department of the Lot and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

The exceptional situation of the commune, to the mouth of the valley of the towards and on Right Bank of the valley of the Batch]], offers contrasted landscapes which constitute its major attraction. This territory, with the doors of [[Regional natural park of Causses of Quercy]], is marked by the very preserved character of its environment. The richness of its natural heritage, of its [[fauna]] and of its [[flora]], contributes to its attractivity and the quality of its framework of life. Important spaces are identified besides under the Natural Zones of Interest Ecological and Faunistic, others are recognized through the European directive of the Zones [[Natura 2000]]. These measurements of inventories and protections relate to mainly the valley of the brook of Nouaillac, the valley of the Worms and that of the river of the Batch. The valleys deeply notch the open plates of [[Causse]] the S [[calcareous]] S. They are framed by rock slopes (them [[the Cevennes]]), with impressive [[cliff]] S the top of which one is discovered [[panorama]] exceptional. The valley of the Batch offers a staging which is repeated of loop in loop, with a broad fertile plain and terraces on which the frame is established. The sinuous course of the Worms, more intimate, is punctuated small cascades and of a chain of [[water mill|water mills]], like the mill of Raffy or the old one [[paper mill]] of the Carding house. The green freshness of the funds of valleys is opposed to wide drier and rocky of two [[plate]] X caussenards, the Causse of Trégantou and the Causse of Worms. Occupied formerly by [[vine]], these spaces are maintained by one [[agriculture]] of [[breeding]] [[ovine]] and [[bovine]]. They preserve some traditional farmhouses with one [[architecture]] rural remarkable. Connected by a network of ways and a grid of low walls, they are punctuated many dry stone huts (cazelles or gariottes) of varied forms. This context supports today the development of tourism and the activities of nature with the excursion or the bicycle touring and makes it possible to practice many leisures related to the presence of water, like [[navigation]], it [[bathe]], it [[canoe]] or it [[sporting Fishing|fish]]. ==Histoire== The borough is established with the foot of high cliffs limestones, on a small terrace located at the point of [[junction]] of two, Batch rivers and brook of the Worms. It undoubtedly constituted with [[the Middle Ages]] around one [[castle]], one [[castrum]] primarily defensive which depended on [[counts de Toulouse]]. It occupied a strategic position in the valley and was disarmed at the end of the {{XIVe century}}. Old village, are still distinguished the various districts: - the small island of the castrum, installed with the edge of a terrace in overhang on the river, whose certain buildings were recently arranged out of communal equipment, - the heart of the village old, accessible by the old bridge and the place from Planquette, which is prolonged by a suburb, along the street of the farmhouse of Lucet parallel in left bank of the Worms, - and with the entry, on Right Bank, a circular core delimited by a barry which surrounds medieval a tower known as “of the Carthusian monks”. The more recent history brought important upheavals whose village preserves significant traces. The current organization is inherited the work of infrastructure completed during the {{XIXe century}} for the modernization of [[transport]] S. With the rise of [[shipping]] downstream from [[Cahors]], the edges of the Batch were refitted and more than 1000 [[boat]] X passed to Vers. [[Lock]] built in [[1836]] is given today in service for [[navigation]] of pleasure. For the creation of one [[road]] along the valley of the Batch, a new axis was bored in the old village, with a new bridge built in [[1862]] by engineer Montois, whose current main street still bears the name. In the continuation of this work, the old church, considered to be “unhealthy”, was demolished about 1860 and was replaced by the current church rebuilt in 1874 following a new axis open on the way. On arrival of [[railroad]] in [[1886]], the construction of a slope and a bridge cut the village of the river. New spaces developed around the station, currently reconverted in housing and development by an original mural. The borough inherited all these changes a complex organization, with picturesque and varied environments. The discovery of the low districts, banks of the Worms with [[cascades]] and the mills, of the vast shaded space of communal, reserve often of surprised with the attentive visitor. ==Administration== {{ÉluDébut |Titer= Lists successive mayors}} {{Elected |Début= March 2001 |Fin= |Identité= ''' Michel Marsanne ''' |Parti= |Qualité=}} {{ÉluDonnées}} {{ÉluFin}} ==Démographie== {| align=" center" rules=" all" cellspacing=" 0" cellpadding=" 4" style=" to border: 1px solid #999; to border-right: 2px solid #999; to border-bottom: 2px solid #999; background: #f3fff3" |+ style=" make-weight: bold; make-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em" | Demographic trends |- style=" background: #ddffdd" ! [[1962]]!! [[1968]]!! [[1975]]!! [[1982]]!! [[1990]]!! [[1999]] |- | align=center| 367 || align=center| 380 || align=center| 357 || align=center| 337 || align=center| 390|| align=center| 398 |- | colspan=6 align=center| Nombre retained from [[1962]]: [[Population without double accounts]] |} ==Lieux and monuments== * The commune of Worms can be claimed of a long past which is read in its built inheritance. Some houses of the village preserve still identifiable medieval vestiges. * The “tower of the Carthusian monks” located on the slope of the Worms opposed to the castrum, is an element of a home of the {{S|XIV|E}}, with two turns which preserve cruciform archères at double brace (currently occupied by the hotel of gilded Trout). * The “castle of English”, nested in the cliffs which dominate the village, is a construction which closes a refuge arranged in front of one [[cave]]. Many fortifications of this type, resulting from the need for protecting itself during the time from disorders which marked the history of [[Quercy]], mark out the valley of the Batch. * [[The Church (building)|church]] Notre Dame de Velles, isolated at the edge of the Batch and broadside of small [[cemetery]], was built with Xe and {{XIIe century}} S. With its [[cupola]] and its [[bell-tower]] massive, it at that time offers an architecture representative of the Romance churches of Quercy. It was classified in [[1913]] under [[Historic buildings]] and its accesses are protected by a site registered since [[1976]]. * The local tradition dedicates it to the marines and allots his name to the veils of [[barge]] the S which sailed on the Batch or with those of a boat-mill anchored in the vicinity. One [[pilgrimage]] important takes place at August 15th, every year. * [[Prehistory]] left many traces in the area, of which it [[decorated cave]] of [[Pech Merle]], located on the commune bordering on [[Cabrerets]], is the most remarkable example. Sites dispersed on the commune were inventoried by [[archeologist]] the S, like [[dolmen]] of Trégantou and the shelter of Cuzouls. The Gallic time is also present with the barred spur of the Rock of Colonjac and the oppidum of Crepin Saint. They testify to this long story of the human occupation and still remain to study. * [[Aqueduct]] [[Gallo-Roman]], which fed out of water the town of Cahors of Ier to the {{Ve century}}, finds its source in the valley of the Worms and curves, in underground conduits or with blank of [[cliff]], in overhang of the valleys on about thirty kilometers. The remarkable vestiges which remain on the commune, dominating the Batch and the Worms, are registered with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings in [[1953]]. The archaeological research undertaken since [[1997]], under the direction of Didier Rigal, made it possible to update new elements, to locate collectings, and to better include/understand thus the importance of this exceptional work. ==Personnalities related to the commune== * These remarkable landscapes for a long time attracted the visitors, as the fame testifies some to the inn of Trout gilded at the beginning of last century. They thus inspired by the artists, since [[Andre Derain]] whose tables painted with Vers in [[1912]] are with [[museum of the Hermitage]] or with [[MoMa]], until Sally and Jeffery Stride which live and work today in the commune. * Celebrate [[tenor]] with [[comic opera]], [[Jean Mouliérat]], was born in Vers it [[November 13rd]] [[1853]]. His/her father, Etienne, held the hotel of the Gilded Trout, which always exists. Attached to the department of the Batch, it bought in [[1896]] the imposing one [[Castle of Castelnau-Bretenoux|medieval fortress of Castelnau-of-Bretenoux]] that it saved ruin and whose it made gift in the State in [[1932]]. to ==Voir aussi== * [[Common of the Batch]] ==Liens externes== * [http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087&CommuneId=43791 Towards on the site of the national geographical Institute] * [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=46331&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Towards on the site of INSEE] * [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=25309&req=Vers Towards on the site of Quid] * [http://www.lion1906.com/Pages/ResultatLocalisation.php?InseeVille=460331 Localization of Worms on a chart of France and communes bordering] * [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=44.4866666666667&longitude=1.55416666666667&zoom=8 Plan of Worms on Mapquest] [[Category: Commune of the Batch|Towards]] [[it: Towards (Batch)]] [[nl: Towards (Batch)]] [[pl: Towards (Batch)]] [[vo: Towards (Batch)

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