Lisle-sur-Tarn

Lisle-sur-Tarn
The main square in Lisle-sur-Tarn The main square in Lisle-sur-Tarn
Coat of arms of Lisle-sur-Tarn Coat of arms
Lisle-sur-Tarn
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Lisle-sur-Tarn
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Tarn
Arrondissement	Albi
Canton	Lisle-sur-Tarn
Intercommunality	Tarn and Dadou
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Tkaczuk
Area1	86.56 km2 (33.42 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	4,170
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	81145 / 81310
Elevation	95–285 m (312–935 ft) (avg. 127 m or 417 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Lisle-sur-Tarn is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

Geography

The city is located halfway between Toulouse and Albi on the A68 motorway, in the Gaillac vineyard, on the banks of the Tarn. Historically speaking, it is also located on one of the ancient Ways of St. James.

History

Created as a bastide by Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse in the 13th century, after the destruction of the castel of Montagut, ordered by the crusaders during the Albigensian Crusade. Thanks to local productions such as pastel and Gaillac wine, the city became an important market with a fluvial port on the Tarn. This rich heritage, in a region that is still producing wine nowadays, plays an important role on the local tourism-oriented economy.

Demography

Historical population of Lisle-sur-Tarn
(Source: INSEE)

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
Population	3308	3376	3385	3413	3588	3684	4171

Transport

• Gare de Lisle-sur-Tarn

Notable facts

File:Lisle sur Tarn window shutters October 2015.jpg

Lisle-sur-Tarn has a large number of period properties.

The village was designed with perpendicular, regularized streets with red-brick half-timbered houses, that are made up of an ensemble of four districts, each one delimited by a fortified gate. The market square is the largest of all the south-western bastides, with about 5,000 m². It was renovated in 2000. The town has a museum on the main square to the artist Raymond Lafage.

Trivia

The town figures in Tracy Chevalier's first published novel, "The Virgin Blue"

See also

• Communes of the Tarn department
• Sivens Dam
• Tourism in Tarn

References

• INSEE