Villemur-on-Tarn

Blazon

Blazon: Mouths with the crenelated wall of sand money, built, surmounted by a money crescent also and accompanied by three gold stars; with the bent chief of azure charged with three flowers of gold lily also.

Geography

Commune is located at 32 km in the North-East of Toulouse on the Tarn and at 26 km of Montauban

History

The city of Villemur-on-Tarn was founded there is more than thousand years on a site favorable to defense. It is so remarkably arranged that this Fortified town division, with the Mount-Saint-Michel, honor not to be never taken, in particular by the English who, at the time of the Guerre One hundred Year old, occupied all the west and the western south of our country.

First of all, its natural defenses were consisted by the broad ditch of the Rivière and two deep ravines which opened on Right Bank. These ditches with the profile out of V were quasi insuperable for a possible attacker: the Notre Dame ditch, always visible today and that a vault of brick S spans, then the Ravin of Bifranc, filled after the Inondation of 1930.

The duke of Merry, Ligueur puts the seat at it in 1592. But the lord de Rastignac and a troop of Auvergnats faithful to the king Henri IV pushes back it: its Spanish troops are thrown to the river, and is killed to him.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Antoine Scipion de Joyeuse

See too

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

External bonds

Villemur-on-Tarn on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Villemur-on-Tarn on the site of INSEE
Villemur-on-Tarn on the site of Quid
Localization of Villemur-on-Tarn on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Villemur-on-Tarn on Mapquest
(http://villemur-sur-tarn.info

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