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Gaillac
Gaillac (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It had in 2013 a population of 14,334 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are called Gaillacois. Geography Gaillac is a town situated between Toulouse, Albi and Montauban. It has gained much recognition due to the wines that bear the town's name. The river Tarn runs along the border of the town by the south, east and west. It lies 50 km north-east of Toulouse. It is a market town and is the commercial centre of the north-west of Tarn. The local wine of Gaillac, first made almost two thousand years ago, is of two official appellations (AOC). The terroir is made up of clay, limestone, sand and silex soils. Gaillac receives more sunshine than Bordeaux and is graced by a cool maritime climate. Duras is the name both of the grape that is native to this area and of an AOC and town just northwest of the two "Gaillac" designations. History The town was founded in the second century CE by the Gauls who created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UA Gaillac
Union Athlétique Gaillac is a French rugby union club currently competing in the Fédérale 3 league, the third level of the French amateur league system, after having been forcibly relegated from the second level of the French professional league due to serious financial problems. The club, founded in 1901, is based in the small town of Gaillac, in southwestern France, in the département of Tarn, some 70 km northeast of Toulouse. They play their home games at ''Stade Laborie-Bernard Laporte'', which was inaugurated in 1909. Their current coach is Alain Gaillard. History The club was founded as ''Stade Gaillacois'' and was only the third rugby union club in Tarn. In 1905, it became ''Stade Athlétique Gaillacois'' and in 1910 ''Union Sportive Gaillacoise''. In 1940, the French rugby federation cancelled the championship and the club was forced out of business, but a new club was founded, ''Union Athlétique Gaillacoise'', with rugby, football, boxing, tennis, athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourism In Tarn
The Tarn department is situated in the southwest of France. Statistics In 2009, there were : * Nightly rentals : 8.6 million * Beds available : 23,100 * Business hotels represented 305,000 tourists for a total of 470,200 nights * Campsites represented 54,000 tourists for a total of 254,000 nights * 152,353 nightly rentals booked from the 2 main centers (Tarn Reservation Tourisme and Gîtes de France) Historical and cultural attractions Steeped in history, from the Cathar era to the Industrial Revolution, the Tarn department has a rich heritage of fortified villages, castles, churches and museums. While the south-western houses are mostly stone-built, cities from the northwest of the department are often made of the local red brick, typical of the region. * Albi and its Cathedral, dedicated to Saint-Cecilia. A unique red-brick fortified cathedral, renowned worldwide for its ornamented stone roodscreen. Together with the Berbie palace, a former bishops’ estate now home to the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Gaillac-Graulhet
Communauté d'agglomération Gaillac-Graulhet is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the towns of Gaillac and Graulhet. It is located in the Tarn department, in the Occitania region, southern France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Gaillac.CA Gaillac-Graulhet (N° SIREN : 200066124) BANATIC. Retrieved 9 November 2022. Its area is 1164.4 km2. Its population was 74,286 in 2019.Comparateur de territoire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaillac AOC
Gaillac AOC is an ''Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée'' (AOC) in South West France in the département of Tarn, just north of Toulouse. History The region makes claims to be among the earliest viticultural centres of ancient Gaul, though possibly after those of Languedoc around Narbonne, with wine production Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. The science of wine and w ... established in early 1st century.winepros.com.au. Ancient Rome, Roman merchants transported wine to Bordeaux and Northern Europe down the Tarn (river), Tarn, and vineyards soon followed in the valley. Archaeologists have found Roman pottery in Montans. The town of Gaillac grew up around the Benedictine monastery of Saint Michael, in the Tenth Century. As elsewhere, vineyards flourished in the care of the monks, who needed w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaillac Station
Gaillac is a railway station in Gaillac, Occitanie, France. It is on the Brive–Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi .... Train services The following services currently call at Gaillac: TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Albi–Rodez *local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Figeac–Aurillac References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarn (department)
Tarn ( or ; ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the river Tarn, it had a population of 389,844 as of 2019.Populations légales 2019: 81 Tarn INSEE Its prefecture and largest city is ; it has a single subprefecture, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelnau-de-Montmiral
Castelnau-de-Montmiral (; oc, Castèlnòu de Montmiralh) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Demography Geography The Vère flows westward through the commune. History While traces of activities dating back to the Bronze Age such as dolmens and oppidums can be seen in the nearby forest La Grésigne, the village was founded as an albigensian bastide (fortified new town) in 1222 by Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, under the name “Castellum Novum Montis Mirabilis”. During the subsequent years, the village remained an impressive stronghold. In 1345, during the Hundred Years' War, when Edward the Black Prince invaded the Albigeois, he reportedly left without besieging the village… Later, it served as a shelter for Catholics who were fleeing from Gaillac because of the Wars of Religion. King Louis XIII visited Castelnau in June 1622, and stayed in the “Tonnac” house. Remarkable sites and monuments Remarkable sites and monuments in Castel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessonnières Station
Tessonnières is a railway station in Tessonnières, Occitanie, France. It is on the Brive–Toulouse (via Capdenac) and Tessonnières to Albi railway lines. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi .... Train services The following services currently call at Tessonnières: TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Albi–Rodez References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duras (grape)
Duras is a traditional French variety of red wine grape that is mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse. It is usually blended with other traditional varieties, but production has been declining in recent years. Despite the name the grape appears to have no connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux, and is not grown there today.J. Robinson ''Vines, Grapes & Wines'' pg 205 Mitchell Beazley 1986 Nor is there any known link with the Durasa of Piedmont. History Viticulture came to the Tarn with the Romans, but little is known of the history of Duras. DNA fingerprinting has recently suggested that with Petit Verdot from Bordeaux, it is a parent of the Tressot variety. , accessed on December 15, 2009 Distribution ...
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Henri Yrissou
Henri Yrissou (May 15, 1909 - June 21, 2009) was a French World War II veteran and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly and as the mayor of Gaillac. Early life Henri Yrissou was born in Nîmes, France on May 15, 1909. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and consequently received the Resistance Medal; he also received the Croix de Guerre and became a Commander of the Legion of Honour. Additionally, he became a Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Career Yrissou was Public Works and Foreign Affairs Minister Antoine Pinay's chief of staff from 1950 to 1955. He then served as a member of the National Assembly from November 30, 1958 to October 9, 1962, representing Tarn. He also served as the mayor of Gaillac Gaillac (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It had in 2013 a population of 14,334 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are called Gaillacois. Geography Gaillac is a town situated between Toulouse, Albi and Monta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Castagné
Joseph-Antoine Castagné (Gaillac, Tarn, November 27, 1875 - January 19, 1958, Montpellier) was a French professor at the gymnase d'Orenbourg in Orenburg, Russia, an ethnographer and an expert on Central Asia. He wrote extensively about Russian Turkestan. Publications * ''Chants et danses populaires folkloriques de quelques peuples orientaux de l'U.R.S.S.'' Paris, 1956. * ''Le culte des lieux saints de l'Islam au Turkestan.'' Paris, 1951. * ''Le Problème du Turkestan chinois (sin-kiang).'' Paris: P. Geuthner, 1933. * ''Notes sur l'Afghanistan.'' Paris, 1932 * "Essai de démonologie kazak-kirghize: la personnification des éléments chez les Kazak-Kirghiz." “L'Etnographie” 26:51-60, 1932. * ''Ethnographie religieuse: étude sur la démonologie des Kazak-Kirghizes.'' Alençon: Imprimerie Laverdure, 1931 * ''Magie et exorcisme chez les Kazak-Kirghizes et autres peuples turks orientaux.'' Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1930. * ''L'Orientalisme et l'archéologie au T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Tarn Department
The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * Communauté d'agglomération de l'Albigeois * Communauté d'agglomération de Castres Mazamet * |
