Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a commune in southwestern France, part of the department of Haute-Garonne in the Occitanie region.
History.
In 72 B.C. the Roman General Pompey, while on the way back to Rome after a military campaign in Spain, founded a Roman colony there named "Lugdunum Convenarum".
In 1083, the knight Bertrand de l'Isle-Jourdain was named as Bishop of Comminges. He ordered the construction of the cathedral and of the Romanesque cloister. The place became used by pilgrims as a stage on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
Bertrand de l'Isle was canonised and became known as Saint-Bertrand in the 13th century and Lugdunum Convenarum became known as "Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges".
Geography.
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is on the foothills of the Pyrenees in the Comminges region at to the southwest of Saint-Gaudens. It is on the border with the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
The "commune" has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is the southwestern end of Haute-Garonne department and borders 8 other "communes", six of them in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
The Garonne river flows through the northeastern border of the "commune"; several of its tributaries, all small streams, flow through the "commune".
Climate.
The climate of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Population.
The inhabitants of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges are known, in French, as "Commingeois" (women: "Commingeoises").
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges has a population, in 2014, of 243, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
Administration.
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is part of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Gaudens, the Bagnères-de-Luchon canton and of the intercommunality "Les Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises" ().
Sites of interest.
Some important buildings and places are: