Alliat Explained
| Alliat |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Arrondissement: | Foix |
| Canton: | Sabarthès |
| Insee: | 09006 |
| Postal Code: | 09400 |
| Mayor: | Marie-Françoise Kalandadze[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Pays de Tarascon |
| Coordinates: | 42.8181°N 1.5872°W |
| Elevation M: | 560 |
| Elevation Min M: | 500 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1268 |
| Area Km2: | 3.46 |
Alliat (in French pronounced as /alja/; Occitan (post 1500);: Aliat) is a commune in the Ariège department and Occitanie region in southwestern France.
Geography
Commune in the "Haute-Ariège" part of the Pyrenees located 15 km from the city of Foix and 5 km from the city of Tarascon-sur-Ariège, in the "Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises".
Population
Inhabitants of Alliat are called Alliatois.
Sights
- The "cave of the cow" : with distinctive archeological strata discovered in its entrance and in the "salle Monique", opened to the public in 1979. It produced a remarkably rich collection of prehistorical objects from the Magdalenian era (12,000 to 14,000 years old), including a large number of harpoons and assegai points as well as more than 200 pieces of art: bones, engraved reindeer and red deer antlers, sculpture of animals, sometimes of humans, as well as rare species for that period: panther, bear, wolves, Saiga antelope, birds and salmon.
It was one of the first caves explored in Ariège (Félix Garrigou, in 1866). A second salle was discovered in 1952 and was explored by its discoverer, Romain Robert, until 1964.
- Fortified cave Spoulgas d’Alliat: located 100 m south of the cave of the cow.[2]
Activities
- Rock climbing around the caves
- Horse riding
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
- Maps and descriptions available in "Monographies villageoises en Sabarthès", Florence Guillot, 1999.
