Discovering our heritage
Listed below are the villages which make up the Canton of Saint-Clar, known as the Communauté des Communes Coeur de Lomagne. Using Saint-Clar as a starting point, a round trip through these villages is a delight. For each village, we point out the main places of interest.
For more detailed information about each village, a booklet is on sale at the Tourist Office.
Information about events connected with heritage sites can be found on the page “Festivals & Events”.
- Magnas
- L’Isle-Bouzon
- Plieux
- Saint-Créac
- Mauroux
- Castéron
- Gaudonville
- Avezan
- Tournecoupe
- Pessoulens
- Estramiac
- Bivès
- Saint-Léonard
Magnas
Restored chapel
Restored chapel (Access permitted only on special Heritage Days – Les Journées du Patrimoine).
Château with large main building dating from the 18th century (viewed from outside only).
From the chapel in Magnas there is a route around the “croix de rogations” (ten roadside crosses often commemorating important family events). This can be undertaken on foot or by bicycle on stone tracks. A route description is available from the Tourist Office.
L’Isle-Bouzon
St Peter’s Church and wash-house
St Peter’s Church, dating from the 14th century, with 19th-century alterations.
Castle ruins from the 13th century. The castle was destroyed during the Revolution. Watch-tower from 15th or 16th century.
Smithy.
The Scented Path (“Chemin des Senteurs”): circular 16th-century dovecote, drinking trough, wash-house.
Viewpoint over the Auroue valley.
A visit of the village can be arranged on request.
Plieux
Gascon castle
"Chartreuse"-style house from the 19th century (viewed from outside only).
14th-century Gascon castle. (Listed monument: guided tours from 21 June to 21 September every day except Tuesday, from 2pm to 8pm; out of season by arrangement).
Saint-Créac
Church of Saint-Loup
The 12th-century Church of Saint-Loup boasts a bell-wall, and remarkable frescoes in Greco-Byzantine style, restored in the 19th century. Please ask for the key at the neighbouring house.
Just downhill from the village centre you can find a spring and wash-house.
Mauroux
Circular covered wash-house and St Martin’s Chapel
Remains of the 13th-century village walls.
Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paulm dating from the end of the 15th centurym restored with changes in the 19th century.
Covered circular wash-house.
The road from Mauroux to Saint-Martin.
The Chapel of St-Martin de las Oumettes, with bell-wall.
Dovecotes.
Castéron
St Lawrence’s Church
St Lawrence’s Church with 16th-century choir and 19th-century nave.
"Chartreuse"-style house, 18th-century, nowadays the Town Hall.
Blacksmith's quenching tank.
Oratory.
Viewpoint. This is the highest point in the Lomagne area.
Gaudonville
St Michael’s Church and fortified gateway
St Michaels’ Church, with bell-wall..
Fortified gateway with former drawbridge and 12th-century tower.
The Chapel of Our Lady of Tudet, a place of pilgrimage dating from the 12th century.
Avezan
The Castle of Avezan
St James’ Church with 13th-century bell-wall, restored in the 19th century.
The castle dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, but was altered in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Half-timbered houses from the 15th and 16th centuries.
The "Gaillac" wash-house.
Dovecotes.
Tournecoupe
St Peter’s Church and rectangular wash-house
St Peter’s Church, 16th century, with octagonal bell-tower (once the church of a château no longer in existence).
Remains of the village ramparts and former fortified gateway.
Rectangular wash-house with neo-Gothic drinking trough on the ramparts.
Viewpoint from the ramparts over the Arratz valley.
Route des crêtes (Road over the hilltops).
Dovecotes.
Pessoulens
The Church of Saint Saturnin
13th-century Church of St Saturnin, remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Château de Peyrac, from the end of the 16th century, very heavily altered over the years (viewed from the exterior only).
In the old hamlet of Pordiac:
16th-century Church, modified in the 19th century.
Wash-house.
Windmill and octagonal dovecote (private; view from outside only).
Estramiac
U-shaped wash-house
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, 19th century.
Water source.
U-shaped wash-house.
Dovecotes.
Remains of two windmills; one has been restored.
Bivès
St Andrew’s Church
St Andrew’s Church, with 12th-century sacristy, choir and bell-wall (note that there are five bells) from the 17th century.
13th- and 14th-century castle, reworked in the Renaissance. View from outside only.
Dovecotes.
Windmill.
Saint-Léonard
Church and Château
19th-century church, but with 15th-century doorway.
Well and fountain.
15th-century château, updated in the 18th century, with fine vaulted cellars. (Privately owned).
Windmills.
