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SEGALAS: 109 inhabitants, local Holiday the 1 ° weekend of July, City hall: 0562965616

Three conglomerations of scattered environment, Ségalas, Village and Theulé scattered in the plain right bank of Adour. These three municipalities having merged between 1793 and 1801. Their three names are Romanic and testify of an activity of the medieval ground. Ségalas meaning fields of rye, Village conglomeration of Moyen-Age and Theulé sends back to the existence of a tilery. At the same time as the demographic decline (210 inhabitants in 1841), occurred an agricultural specialization (the bovine crowd tripled since 1866) pulling a modification of the landscape (extension of prairies)

Monuments: Column of pebbles, Statue of the Virgo, former Stained glasses in the church

SARRIAC-BIGORRE: 263 inhabitants, local Holiday 2 ° weekend of August, City hall 0562966198

Sarriac is established near Rabastens on a terrace of the right bank of Adour in 218 metres in height. The castle, aprés to have belonged to a branch of Montaut-Bénac, passed in 1686 in Saint-Pastous which preserved him until 1970. The current building, in the middle of ' network of canals and ditches, does not seem to go back up beyond the XIX ° century.

Nicknames: " Bencillès " meaning producers of wicker; this shrub being established well on Sarriac's territory crossed by canals.

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Church of the XVII ° century

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The tabernacle of Dominique Ferrère

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Baldaquin of Dominique Ferrère made in 1778

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Picture on the wall : Marie's Assumption

Furniture of the XVIII ° registers on monuments history

Water mill, municipal Fountain,

Four municipal laundries

MINGOT: 69 inhabitants, local Holiday: by December 15, City hall 0562966439

Municipality which stretches its houses on the crest of clay with pebbles, separating the valley of Arros of that of Adour and dominating Rabastens in 270 metres in height. It carried till the end of the XVIII ° century Casteljaloux's name often given to medieval fortified castles.

Festivity: Moutouade on Sundays of Pentecost

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Chemin of crest connecting Rabastens with Sénac with very beautiful sights on the plain of Bigorre

 

 

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Church of the 17eme et 18 emecentury

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Altar piece of Jean Ferrère -1675

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Tabernacle of Jean Ferrère. Here is Annunciation detail

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Cherubs : Detail

SENAC: 215 inhabitants, local Holiday on August 15, City hall 0562966190

Situated on the same crest as Mingot in 272 metres in height the site of the village was frequented by the prehistory (axes it quartzite) in the gallo-Roman time (Majorien's golden currency in V ° century) .Le name comes moreover of the gallo-Roman Sénos or Sendus. The population was 456 inhabitants in 1836.

Sites: The three crosses of the Calvary where from one can count 33 bell towers by clear time: highlight of the canton

Road of crest from Rabastens towards Mansan and Peyrun

Church with very beautiful frescoes

Pumps with petroleum with pendulums in activity

Bazillac: 304 inhabitants, local Holiday at the beginning of October, City hall 0562962423

This gallo-Roman place-name of the name of gréco-Latin man " Basilius " indicates(appoints) a located community on a ground right bank of Adour to a height of 232 metres. The archaeological finds confirms the ancient activity(occupation) of the site.

A little bit before 1750, in the middle of a vast quadrangle surrounded with ditches, remained vestiges of the castle of the barons of Bazillac on whom rises today the municipal school. A construction in bricks replaces in the XIX ° century the manor house of Florence the Lords of which were vassals of the Bazillac. The municipality counted 536 living in 1836.

Sites: water mill, 2 municipal laundries, Existance of an archeological site

Residence: rural Shelters

LACASSAGNE: 175 inhabitants, local Holiday the 1 ° weekend of July, City hall 0562966490

Situated between the valley of Estéous and the plain of Adour the village grows longer on a crest in 261 metres in height. Lacassagne's name comes from the novel indicating a standing place of "break-in" (oaks). In a feudal clod succeeded a classic small bigourdan castle of the XVIII ° century, for a long time possessed by Castelbajac which sold him under the revolution to Pierre Loustaunau, " Aydius's maharajah " of whom it passed to Bernard Lannes, frére of the marshal Lannes and the first prefect of High Pyrenees. In 1836 the municipality counted 501 inhabitants.

Nickname: " Taoueillous de Lacassagno ": (bearers of Lacassagne's aprons) coming from the installation of a workshop textile(textile industry).

Monument: Ruins of the castle

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Residence: Holiday cottage in the country, municipal Shelter

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