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
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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.
Monuments:
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
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Furniture of the XVIII
° registers on monuments history
Water mill, municipal
Fountain,
Four municipal
laundries
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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
Site:
Chemin of crest connecting
Rabastens with Sénac with very beautiful sights on
the plain of Bigorre
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
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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
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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
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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
Residence: Holiday
cottage in the country, municipal Shelter
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