Chapelle Notre-Dame de Roumé

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The Notre-Dame de Roumé chapel is a religious building located in the municipality of Cioutat built more or less 700 years ago.

Location: The chapel is isolated in the countryside, on the edge of the D120, 1 km south of the village.

This Romanesque chapel, dedicated to Notre-Dame, experienced several periods of construction (late 13th century, 16th century and 19th century).Many assumptions were considered as to his name; Some have attached it to the Greek word "romé" (force) or to the word occitan "roumec" or "roumec" which means "ronce". But still others, put forward the hypothesis, no doubt the most probable, that the name of the chapel would come in fact from the name of the Roman way passing near "iter ab aquis tarbellicis tolosam" (the road of the waters of Tarbes to Toulouse) which is called Cami roumiou, a road which the pilgrims of Santiago de Compostela took. Listed as a historical monument in 1956, the chapel was restored in 1985.

Architecture: The chapel is built on a small mound and is surrounded by a wall of dry stones. It is 16 m long by 6 wide. The masonry apparatus is made of cut stone...