commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in southwestern
France
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.
Geography
The
Lèze
The Lèze () is a long river in the Ariège and Haute-Garonne ''départements'', southwestern France. Its source is in La Bastide-de-Sérou. It flows generally north. It is a left tributary of the Ariège into which it flows between Labarthe-su ...
forms most of the commune's north-eastern border. There are numerous hiking routes.
The commune is bordered by five other communes, three of them is in
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's ...
Latrape
Latrape (; oc, La Trapa) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Geography
The commune is bordered by eight other communes, seven of them is in Haute-Garonne, and one in Ariège: Lacaugne to the north, Carbonne and ...
Massabrac
Massabrac () is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Geography
The Lèze forms part of the commune's northeastern border.
The commune is bordered by four communes, two of them is in Haute-Garonne, and two in Ariè ...
to the southeast, and finally by the department of Ariège to the north and east by the communes of
Lézat-sur-Lèze
Lézat-sur-Lèze (, literally ''Lézat on Lèze''; Languedocien: ''Lesat'') is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.
Geography
The Lèze forms part of the commune's southern border, flows north through the commune, then ...
to the north and
Saint-Ybars
Saint-Ybars is a Communes of France, commune in the Ariège (department), Ariège Departments of France, department in southwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Saint-Ybars are called ''Eparchois''.
Geography
The Lèze forms part of t ...
castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
listed by the
French Ministry of Culture
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as a ''
monument historique
''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...
'' since 18 March 2003.
* Gardens of the château.
*
Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and ...
* Église Saint-Sébastien, restored
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...