Church of Saint-Victor

Small dirt paths lead us without great difficulty to the Note-Dame de Montaut chapel. Accessible via the village located 170m lower, it is in full nature that rises the modest chapel of Montaut. A previous chapel existed before, easily explaining the difference of stone between the two bodies of buildings which constitute it. Indeed, during an annual pilgrimage, on September 8 of a year that one could not specify, the dean priest of Sainte-Croix proceeded to the installation of the first stone of the future chapel, then was planned to raise the walls of the preceding chapel.

The church is modest in appearance, but you only have to go inside to see all its riches at first glance. The arcatures of the chapels are surmounted by a delicate mural fresco, in ten paintings, illustrating episodes from the life of Saint Germaine de Pibrac. The baptistery, for its part, harmonizes with the nave and is similar to the Romanesque style. Finally, the church has a rich interior decoration, the work of talented local painters.

Originally a small Gallo-Roman village built on the promontory of Montjoie and bordered by the Hourride and the Garonne, Cazères appears in history in medieval times. A first church was then erected there. Dependent successively on the house of Comminges then on the county of Toulouse, Cazères is in the 14th century under the house of Foix then directed by Gaston Phoebus. During this period, the town suffered unrest and wars that ravaged their region. Thus in 1355 the primitive church was destroyed by the English troops of the Black Prince. At the end of the 14th century, the construction of a new church was started, which would be named Notre-Dame and would be the patron saint of Sainte Quitterie. During the Revolution, it was mutilated and stripped of its arrows and chapels. It was not until 1888 that its façade was restored by the architect H. d'Espouy, who designed the two octagonal towers between which the Virgin of the Assumption stands.