Vieille-Toulouse
Vieille -Toulouse is a municipality with 1127 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in southern France, the Région Midi -Pyrénées and in the department of Haute -Garonne, eight kilometers south of Toulouse. Vieille -Toulouse belongs to the Association of Municipalities Sicoval.
Coat of arms
Sign with six alternating silver and green horizontal stripes.
Geography
The municipality borders the city of Toulouse and is located about eight kilometers south of the city center. In the west the district is bounded by the Garonne. The village center and the majority of the district are located approximately 100 m above the Garonne on a penetrated by a plurality of transverse valleys ridge.
History
The place has been settled since the 8th, maybe v. since the 13th century BC, probably from Iberians. End of the 3rd century BC migrated Volcae - Tectosages into the area between the Mediterranean, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, where this place as their capital Tolosa Tectosagum. It developed into a city of 90 to 100 acres in size and probably 5,000 inhabitants, with numerous craft shops, two temples and a significant long-distance trade, particularly for imports of wine from Italy. The city came from the end of the 2nd century BC under Roman rule and was, were trading at Emporium, a place where goods and coins from almost all of Europe. Approximately in the year 8 BC, the town was abandoned in favor of the newly formed Roman settlement on the site of the present city center of Toulouse.
On the site of the defunct settlement probably had an estate in the early Middle Ages. To the east of the present village, first mentioned in 1276 as Veterem Tolosam developed. Until the mid-20th century Vieille -Toulouse was dominated exclusively by agriculture.
During the Second World War, there were in the years 1943 to 1944 a German anti-aircraft position on a hill of the community.
In 1950, the Toulouse golf course was built on the site of ancient settlement.
Demographics
Attractions
- Romanesque village church (John the Baptist ), 13th century
- Numerous finds from antiquity in the Musée Saint -Raymond, Toulouse