MOUMOULOUS: 68
inhabitants, local Holiday by August 20, City hall
0562965240
This village is installed
on the sweet sloping western hillside of the valley of Lurus
at a height of 240 metres. The name comes certainly of the
Germanic " Mumolus " .L' evolution of
the activity) of the ground is marked by the decline of the
vineyard struck by the oïdium in 1855 and the
phylloxera in 1881 where from the increase of surfaces in
meadows and in uncultivated.
Saying: " Moumoulous, pousoueros and werewolves
":Moumoulous,
witches and werewolf.
Site: road of crest in
the heart of the hills of Astarac.
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UGNOUAS:
73 inhabitants, local
Holiday:week-end of Pentecost, City hall: 05629312211
Situated municipality
right bank of Adour at a height of 241 metres and on a
territory of 159 hectares
Site: laundry
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ESCONDEAUX:
212 inhabitants,
local Holiday: 3 ° weekend of June, City hall:
0562966655
Rabastens's hamlet since
1806, set up as municipality in 1845, this village is
situated on a terrace left bank of Adour at a height of 258
metres .Comme its name indicates it "
ets condaus " " comtaux territories ", Escondaux
belonged to Moyen-Age to the count of Bigorre.
Residence: rural
shelters
Curiosity: game of
skittles from 9 to activity.
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MANSAN:
54 inhabitants, local
Holiday: by December 15, City hall: 0562966205
Municipality of 208
hectares isolated on the western hillside of the valley of
Nénos in 250 metres in height. it lost 4/5 ° of
population since 1806. Nothing no parrait to remain of the
castle on clod, possessed by Antist's family from 1476, when
lived the famous captain Mansan who served Monluc during the
religious wars.
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LESCURRY: 163
inhabitants, local Holiday 1 ° on Sunday of September,
City hall: 0562966391
Lescurry is built on a
crest separating the valley of Estéous in the East,
that of Adour at a height of 270 metres. The castle
possessed by the family of Villepinte then Podénas
dates, in its current state, the XIX ° century.
Nickname:: "
Aulhès de Lescurry ": herdsmen
Sites: Fountain in the
virtues digestives:eau containing an important density of
bicarbonate of soda
Gothic church of the XVII
° century
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