Villeneuve-sur-Lot

Blazon

The Blason of the city is described: “Of azure, with the money bridge with 5 arches, surmounted of 3 towers those of dextral and sinistral bearing as a chief a flower of lily”. This description was for the first time made in 1547 by Henri II. The blazon represents at the same time the bridge, symbol of the city, in its old configuration (five arches, three turns) and, by the flower of lily, the royal capacity (the city was founded by Alphonse of Poitiers, brother of holy Louis).

Geography

flowered City : Villeneuve-sur-Lot is located on the Lot and the Trunk road 21 in a fertile plain surrounded by covered slopes of Verger S, in Agenais, near the Périgord and of the Quercy at equal distance of Bordeaux and Toulouse.

This old country house is the second city of the department of Lot-et-Garonne, which knew to become a modern city while preserving its art of living.

Climate

The Climat is of the oceanic type Aquitanian: soft and wet with a Mediterranean tendency the summer.

History

Inserted between the green and timbered hills which dominate the low valley of the Batch, Villeneuve has a long story, whose first chapters were written by the Romans on the site of the Excisum antique.

It is indeed there, with one kilometer of the current center town, with the crossroads of two great transportation routes which was set up a first urban core including/understanding camp of legionaries, artisanal districts, forum, curie, temples of which there remain to us some beautiful structures.

At the beginning of the 11th century, a Abbaye Bénédictin E is installed on the spot and groups around it a small village of potters and peasants. But Villeneuve still does not exist.

It is only between 1254 and 1263 that a Country house will be born, from will of Alphonse of Poitiers, brother of holy Louis, which will obtain Moine S of Eysses the transfer of grounds necessary to the construction of a city new, affluent of a charter of habits, or privileges, which in 46 articles defines its social life of it, economic and penal.

Its construction will obey in a plan well defined adoptee by all the country houses of the South-west of France: an orthogonal plan organized around a central place, originality of Villeneuve residing in its position at horse on the Batch.

This situation privileged in fact, at the time, one of the rare points of passage on the river, and will lead it to play a strategic part as of the first episodes of the One hundred year old war, at the time of the wars of religion, or when the queen Margot, avid of being able, tried to conquer the Agenais in vain by forcing the passage of Villeneuve (1585). Its role of place of war ended with the events of the Fronde. In this civil war which tore France, Villeneuve took the party of the Princes against Mazarin. The seat and the defeat which followed (it were one of the last to capitulate, 1653) cost him its ramparts, its ditches. No outstanding fact more disturbed its history. The Révolution of 1789 caused even no important movement there and the city wisely remained “revolutionist”.

It also contributes in spite of the decisions of the government to protect the environment indeed since October 20th 2005, the Communauté of communes of Villeneuvois uses pure Plant oil to make function its vehicles (10 heavy trucks of the service of collection of the household refuse), it is a first in France, where the legal statute of the containing hydrocarbon Plant oil is prone to Controverse. On this point, the C.C.V was based on the expertise of a lawyer to justify the legal aspect of the raw plant oils used like Carburant (cf the page on this subject).

Administration

Villeneuve-sur-Lot east chief town of district. It is the seat of a magistrates' court.

Demography

Cultural

Mentioned as of 1264 in the constitutive instrument of the country house of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, the mill of Gajac, transformed into Flour mill at the 19th century, has a history which merges with that of the very whole city. The Musée of Gajac occupies the majestic site of old a Moulin installed on the edge of the Rivière, in full center of Villeneuve-sur-Lot. It shelters an important collection of fine art and organizes many temporary exhibitions.

Economy

Until the middle of the 19th century, the river made the richness of the city: all the goods were then transported by Bateau X. From Auvergne descended Bois and Fromage S; Rouergue, the Copper and the Paper; Quercy, the Corn, the Wine and the Fruit S. All these food products forwarded by Villeneuve which, only with Cahors had a starter of commercial port. The boats set out again then on Bordeaux, then from there towards the French counters in the islands.

At the 19th century Villeneuve was especially known for its market-gardening products and its trade of the plum of graft: garden peas, French beans, Pruneau X left by whole trains towards the large markets Bordeaux and Paris. It is also a small diversified industrial center.

Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Lot-et-Garonne.

Famous characters

Jasmine (Jacques Boé, known as), Poet and writer Occitan
Georges Leygues, French Politician (Appointed, Minister of the Navy, chairs Commission of the Foreign affairs, creator of the tomb of the unknown soldier with Paris)
Jacques Raphaël-Leygues (1913-1994), French Politician (Député, Ancien mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Ambassadeur of France in Ivory Coast during 16 years)
Maurice Réalier-Dumas (1860-1928), painter
Andre Crochepierre (1860-1937), painter
Éva Gonzalès (1849-1883), painter
Christian Babou (1947-2005), painter
Chimène Badi, Singer
Paul Guth, writer
Grégory Tutard: player of Rugby to XV
Christophe Juillet: player of Rugby to XV
Freddy Hufnagel: player of Basketball
Henry Coston: Journalist and writer
Charles Derennes: Novelist and Poet
Antoine Bourlange (1873-1951): sculptor
Nicolas Cazalé (born in 1977), French actor
Paul Bernard, actor, was born there in 1898
Marie-France Laborde (Kika), actress
Andre Techine, French realizer, made his film there the wild Reeds

Tourist monuments and places

Of its old ramparts, Villeneuve-sur-Lot preserved the carries from Paris (in the past carries of Monflanquin) and the carries of Pujols 13th and 14th centuries. They are the only vestiges of the rampart S which defended the city.

Spanning the Batch, the bridge old , or bridge of Cieutat, contemporary of the Bridge Valentré of Cahors, was at the 13th overcome century of three defensive towers. If the two southernmost arches date from the 13th century, the large arch located on the side of Right Bank was built with the XVIIe century, following degradations considered to be irreversible of the former arches. This new arch was thus designed in order to facilitate the dissipation of the current; the principal weakness of this work of art, conceived by English engineers little with the fact of the mode of water of the rivers of Aquitaine, lay indeed in its massivity which made an obstacle of it that the pressure of water degraded little by little.

The legend reports that three Bateau X descending the Batch were stopped with the foot of the old bridge by a mysterious force. One of the sailors having plunged to see what retained them, went up carrying a statuette of the virgin . It was then decided to build a Chapelle overhanging the place of the discovery. Since then, the statuette supervises the Rivière since the roof of the vault.

the church Holy-Catherine is of Style novel-Byzantine, and offers an unusual North-South orientation. It was set up at the beginning of the century to replace the old church of XIIIe, considered to be too decayed. It shelters remarkable stained glasses of the S (coming from the old church).

the church Saint-Etienne was built with the birth of the country house at the 13th century. It was completed in XVIe. It is a beautiful late Gothic building of Type Southerner.

the municipal museum called Musée of Gajac proposes collections of local Préhistoire, Egyptian antiquities and Gallo-Roman S, of religious art, drawings and Sculpture S contemporaries.

the Castle of Sylvestrie: S
the Vault of the end of the bridge
the vault of Penitent the
the mill of Gajac
the Theater
the place of Lafayette, called place of the Angles
the old town hall
the bridge of Bastérou
the Stud farm
the villa Gaston Painter: School of the Art schools
the castle of Rogé

Twinnings

, to see

Villeneuve-sur-Lot is the godmother city of the Frégate anti underwater Georges Leygues

References

the Festival of the Laughter:

The Festival of the laughter is eclectic programming and of quality for the happiness of all.

Thus, in July, the country house becomes the capital of the laughter and good mood during one week.

The festival of the laughter proposes to you, every year, programming of quality with artists of national fame to see international, for the pleasure of each one.

See too

Internal bonds

Hippodrome of Sangruere: Hippodrome
Common of Lot-et-Garonne

External bonds

Site of the joint committee Villeneuve-sur-Lot/Troon
Site of Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Visit of printing works the Workshop of Impression in Villeneuve on Batch
Club of [[Rugby with XIII]]
Villeneuve-sur-Lot on the site of the national geographical Institute
Villeneuve-sur-Lot on the site of INSEE
Villeneuve-sur-Lot on the site of Quid
Localization of Villeneuve-sur-Lot on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Villeneuve-sur-Lot on Mapquest
Diagnoses energy stadium
Map of Villeneuve on batch for the plays counter strike

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