MONFAUCON: 162
inhabitants, Holiday locale:1 ° and 2 ° on Sunday
of August, City hall: 0562965611 Environment
semi-scattered on a crest separating the valleys of Arros
and Adour. Name of feudal origin; in the XIV °
Monfaucon's ownership was shared among the Lord of the
castle and the king of France. In the church, reconstructed
in the XVIII ° century, exists a high-quality furniture
due to the sculptors Ferrère and Brunelle. Monfaucon
was the XVIII ° century a big village in the different
social and occupational composition, going from the
middle-class person living nobly (that is of his pensions)
to the labourer. In the XIX ° century Mountain falcon
counted 49 artisans, 144 daily and domestic owners -
developers and 43. Today, the ascendancy of the agriculture
which uses 3 assets on 4 favored the demographic and
accelerated imbalance the drift from the land. Dedicated
site: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/monfaucon65
Stroll: Road of crests
(muleteer) with beautiful sights on the Mountains of
Astarac. Residence: Holiday
cottage in the country
BUZON: 74
inhabitants, local Holiday: last weekend of October, City
hall 0562966096 Situated in 188 metres in
height Buzon extends over the glacis of the western hillside
of the valley of
Arros. For a long time owned by
Sérignac's family, the castle of Colomé
presents another building to rural custom, built in timber
framings, and being able to date the XVI °
century. Monument: Church was
restored by the XVII ° century, painted voute and
tables(pictures). Wooden bell tower dating 1933. Residence: Holiday
cottage in the country
GENSAC: 68
inhabitants, local Holiday on Sundays of the Mother's Day,
City hall: 0562969911 Village - street on the
average terrace of the right bank of Adour in 197 metres in
height. The municipality occupies
a favorable équidistante situation of Vic,
Maubourguet and Rababastens. Tourism: equestrian
Circuit
ANSOST: 62
inhabitants, local Holiday in St Jacques in the middle of
June, City hall: 0562966365 Village situated between
Adour and Estéous in 197 metres in height.
This small municipality
left by his inhabitants at the beginning of the XV °
siécle, was in 1600, in Jean de Montesquiou's hands
Lord of Artagnan who possessed there a for a long time
ruined castle. There was a wood of
alders today disappeared, when people of the village made
some charcoal .L' agriculture remains there dominant and in
widely spread the surface of its ploughings to the detriment
of vineyards and wood. Tourism: rest area with
table at the edge of Estéous. Residence: Chambers and
Hosts' tables
BARBACHEN: 42
inhabitants, local Holiday in fine April the beginning of
May, City hall: 0562969025 Being established in 275
metres in height on a clayey mound of the côteau
dominating the right bank of Adour. Barbachen's medieval
castle succeeded maybe an oppidum today occupied by the
church. Residence: Holiday
cottage in the country
LIAC:
169 inhabitants,
local holiday the 1 ° on Sunday of August, City hall:
0562962160 Being situated in 204
metres in height, in the middle of the plain of Vic, on the
right bank of Adour. The village in been able to be formed
in time gallo-Roman if its name comes well name of Latin man
" linus " .On discovered to it at least of the pottery of
High Moyen-Age on a feudal clod. Nickname: " Lous Antonis
de Liac "