Aire-sur-l\'Adour

Aire-sur-l'Adour is a common French, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants is called Aturins.

Heraldic

Quartered, with the first and the gold fourth to the lion of azure to the fourchée tail, the second and the third of mouths to the lion of crimson; the summoned whole of a chief of azure charged with a flower of gold lily.

Geography

Surface is located at 150 kilometers in the south of Bordeaux, 50 kilometers in the north of Pau and 30 kilometers in the south-east of Mount-with-Marsan, at the place where the Adour enters the department of the Landes, with the junction of the areas of Tursan, the Armagnac and the Vic-Bilh.

Surface is the largest commune of the Tursan, area which occupies the south-eastern corner of the Moors.

Localities and variations

The heart of the city is located on both sides Adour. The Town hall, the center trading and the cathedral are on left bank.

The two principal localities with the variation of the downtown area are Subéhargues, on Right Bank, and the district of the Farmhouse which overhangs left bank with the Holy-Quitterie church.

Communes bordering

The principal commune bordering is Barcelona-of-Gers the, which belongs to the same agglomeration.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
One comes from Barcelona-of-Gers the, the next commune is Miramont-Sensacq.

History

Before the Roman epoch, a oppidum of the name of Atura existed on the site of Surface. From this name, borrowed from the river Adour, as well derive the name from the town of Surface as that of the Tursan ( pagus aturensis ). It was occupied by the people of the Tarusates.

The borough was romanisé under the name of Vicus Julii .

Thereafter Aire became, with Toulouse, one of the two capitals of the kingdom Visigoth of Euric (466 - 484) then of Alaric II (484 - 507), and which promulgated in 506 there, its Bréviaire, condensed Roman law, one year before being overcome by Clovis.

It is during this period, in 476, that Quitterie, catholic princess of Spain, girl of “king” Caius and fleeing its applicant, would have been decapitated by the Visigoths ariens in Aire. Its head would have made there spout out a miraculous source. Its worship was very widespread in Gascogne (one pronounces " Quitèr.i"), where one made him cure headaches and madness. Surface becomes the seat of one évêché.

It is as in Aire, but in bottom, in the strengthened city bordering Adour, as an agreement had made to the 12th century between the king of England, Edouard Ier, and the bishop aturin, one granting its protection, the other a share of its incomes.

Surface lost its évêché with the Revolution. At the beginning of the 19th century, a reorganization of the dioceses of France (Legal settlements of 1801 and of 1817) joined together the dioceses of Surface and Dax. The principal seat of évêché was officially transferred in 1933 to Dax, city larger and served better by the train. The Cathédrale of Surface carries the title of Concathédrale.

The years to come should see the opening to the circulation of a deviation which will circumvent the city by the west and will cross Adour by a new bridge .

Administration

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Demography

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Inheritance

Civilian

the Town hall (since 1927) occupies part of old évêché. It is a building of the 17th century, with a staircase of stone and coffered ceilings, a round tower with a staircase of the 16th century, capped in pepper plantation.

With small the archaeological museum of the Town hall, carved scallop stones.

the house of Officiality , XVIe century, 6 rue Labeyrie, with mullioned windows, was the jurisdiction where sat Jurats.

the bridge of stone to five arches on Adour goes back to 1852. The southern quay and the edges of Adour were arranged in a walk which carries out until the arenas .

the Market with the grains , octagonal, with large stone arches, goes back to 1860.

Monk

  • the cathedral Saint-Jean-Baptist, (évêché of Surface and Dax).
  • Holy Church Quitterie, registered with the world heritage of UNESCO
On the hill of the Farmhouse, in the south-west of the city, it is of Gothic style of XIIIe - XIVe century, except the bedside which completion date of XIe or the beginning of XIIe century.

Economy

Famous characters

Twinning

See too

Related articles

  • Common of the Moors


External bonds

  • Plane Official site
  • of Aire-sur-l'Adour on Mapquest
  • Ways of Jacques Saint in the Moors
  • Ways of Jacques Saint in Aquitaine
  • Town halls & the Communities of Communes of the Moors

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