Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a commune in southwestern France, part of the department of Haute-Garonne in the Occitanie region.
History
In 72 B.C. the Roman General Pompey, while on the way back to Rome after a military campaign in Spain, founded a Roman colony there named Lugdunum Convenarum.
In 1083, the knight Bertrand de l'Isle-Jourdain was named as Bishop of Comminges. He ordered the construction of the cathedral and of the Romanesque cloister. The place became used by pilgrims as a stage on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
Bertrand de l'Isle was canonised and became known as Saint-Bertrand in the 13th century and Lugdunum Convenarum became known as Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges.
Geography
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is on the foothills of the Pyrenees in the Comminges region at to the southwest of Saint-Gaudens. It is on the border with the Hautes-Pyrenees department.
The commune has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is the southwestern end of Haute-Garonne department and borders 8 other communes, six of them in the Hautes-Pyrenees department.
The Garonne river flows through the northeastern border of the commune; several of its tributaries, all small streams, flow through the commune.
Climate
The climate of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, in the Koppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Population
The inhabitants of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges are known, in French, as Commingeois (women: Commingeoises).
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges has a population, in 2014, of 243, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
Administration
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is part of the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens, the Bagneres-de-Luchon canton and of the intercommunality Les Pyrenees Haut-Garonnaises ().
People born at or related to Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
Bertrand de Comminges (~ 1050-1123), Bishop of Comminges that rebuilt the cathedral; the commune is named after him.
Bertrand de Got (~ 1264-1314) was bishop of Comminges and later pope with the name of Clement V.
Pierre de Foix (1386-1464), bishop of Comminges that built the tomb of Saint Bertrand.
Francois Bayle (1622-1709), born in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, physician, botanist, professor of Medicine at the old University of Toulouse.
Neree Boubee (1806-1862), entomologist, geologist, co-founder of a museum of the Pyrenees in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges together with Victor Cazes.
Events
Festival international de musique du Comminges (pipe organ and religious music).
Journee de la litterature jeunesse et de l'ecrit de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges.
Sites of interest
Some important buildings and places are:
Ruins of the old city of Lugdunum Convenarum.
The Notre-Dame of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges cathedral.
The early Christianity basilica, in the lower town.
The old Convent of the Olivetans; now the tourism office is here.
Maison Bridaut; here is the post office.
Gallery
Related pages
Comminges
Arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens
Communes of the Haute-Garonne department
References
Other websites
Mairie de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges website
Website of the cathedral
Communes in Haute-Garonne