Vicdessos

Vicdessos (occitan: Vic of Sòs ) is a common French, located in the department of the Ariège and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called the Vicdessosiens .

Geography

History

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Church Notre-Dame

Its presence is attested since 1081, the square bell-tower of Romance style being the only vestige of the primitive church. Its gate dates from XVe century.

The church contains a Orgue of 17 plays whose construction goes up in the middle of the XVIIe century (more half of the pipes are of origin). It belongs to the three oldest organ of the Midday-Pyrenees and was restored in 1991.

Personalities related to the commune

Theophilus Delcassé
the wild lady of Vicdessos

In 1808, in the Pyrenees, of the hunters saw a woman who ran naked in the rocks. Lengthily tracked, it was finally captured and questioned. She offered in answer only growls and an attitude specific to the animals. But when it was asked him how it was made that it had not been devoured by the bears, it answered clearly: “The bears were my friends!” Then, private of freedom, it was let die.

See too

Common of Ariège

Notes, sources and references

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