Saint-Lizier

Saint- Lizier ( gascognisch Sent LISER ) is a commune with 1430 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Ariège on the right bank of the river salad. The city is named after the bishop Glycerius (French: Lizier ) named, who worked in the 6th century. He took part in the Synod of Agde in 506. The inhabitants of the city are called Licérois.

History

Even in Gallo-Roman times Saint- Lizier was an important place, the headquarters of the Consoranni ( Lugdunum Consoranorum ), who lived at the foot of the Pyrenees, of a people. In 72 BC Pompey made ​​a break here, as he returned from his victory over Sertorius in Spain to Rome.

In the 5th century it was seat of the diocese couserans, the oldest in the region was Ariège. The first bishop was known Valerius ( Valier ); he was succeeded by the Holy Glycerius ( Lizier ). The diocese was abolished in 1802.

Since the Middle Ages is Saint- Lizier of two separate districts, on the one hand of the bishop's Upper Town, which is still surrounded by Gallo- Roman walls. These walls that secure the former oppidum are, from the 3rd century AD Here is Notre- Dame de la Sède the former cathedral. On a hill opposite the Bishop's Palace is the Chapelle Notre- Dame-du- Marsan.

The lower town to the salad is the bourgeois city. Here rises over the grave of St.. Lizier the Church Saint- Lizier, which also leads the title Cathedral and is, with its cloister as the most important Romanesque building in the region.

Gallery

Cathedral Notre- Dame de la Sède in Bishop's Castle

Cathedral Saint- Lizier in the Lower Town

Treasury of Saint- Lizier

Chapelle Notre- Dame-du- Marsan