Saint-Urcisse is a small village which seems to be set in a landscape of valleys, grouped around its church and its 13th century castlee century.
A castle in the heart of the landscape
Saint-Urcisse is one of those places that you discover as you wander through the landscapes and countryside of the Tarn. A charming village overlooking the Tescou plain, it is a pleasant stopover in the heart of peaceful landscapes.
Saint-Urcisse was originally a medieval fortified town in the Albigensian region, founded in 1256. The different periods of Albigensian history, marked by wars and conflicts, have profoundly modified its urban planning and today it is a small agricultural village, in the middle of which stand a castle and a church rebuilt at the end of the 17th century.ᵉ century.
The Castle
Built on the site of a former 15th century fortified house, the castle, now owned by a private owner, bears witness to a certain influence with the Parisian Renaissance milieu. The park underwent a major restructuring in the 19th century with three parts, one in the French style, another private, English style, and a third with an exotic influence. Finally, an orangery and a pond on the lower terrace were built at the end of the 19th century.e century.
Saint-Urcisse Church
Standing in the centre of the village, the church was rebuilt in 1750 in the Gothic style popular at the time. In 1874, a polygonal sanctuary was added to the church. The heart is decorated with frescoes by Nicolai Greschny, a 20th-century painter famous for his work on ecclesiastical iconography.
The Notre-Dame du Cayre church, for its part, was destroyed in the 18th century and was rebuilt in 1806.
