Saint-Loup | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Saint-Loup (Tarn-et Garonne).svg |
Arrondissement: | Castelsarrasin |
Canton: | Garonne-Lomagne-Brulhois |
Insee: | 82165 |
Postal Code: | 82340 |
Mayor: | Stéphane Rebel[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Deux Rives |
Coordinates: | 44.0867°N 0.8578°W |
Elevation M: | 120 |
Elevation Min M: | 51 |
Elevation Max M: | 163 |
Area Km2: | 14.21 |
Saint-Loup (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ lu/; Occitan (post 1500);: Sent Lop) French commune located in the west of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, in region Occitanie. Historically and culturally, the commune is in Lomagne, a former district of the Ancient provinces of France called Gascogne having the title of a viscounty, nicknamed “ French Tuscany.
Exposed to an altered oceanic climate, it is drained by the Garonne, the Arrats and various other small rivers. The commune has a remarkable natural heritage: a Natura 2000 site (“Garonne, Ariège, Hers, Salat, Pique et Neste”), a protected area (the “course of the Garonne, of the Aveyron, Viaur and Tarn) and four Natural zone of ecological, fauna and flora interest|natural zones of ecological, fauna and flora interest.
Made up of three ancient parishes (Saint-Martin de Christinag, Saint-Jean de Castel and Saint-Loup forming a priory), the parish of Saint-Loup depended on the jurisdiction of Auvillar.
Note also the ephemeral parish of Saint-Michel-de-Lastours and its bastide built near an artificial mound on the Agre plateau.
It was united during the Revolution with half of the parish of Saint-Martial en Condomois to form the commune of Bouque-de-Rax, the Arrats river flowing into the Garonne in the commune.