Area 17.72 km² | Region Occitanie Canton Fanjeaux Population (2008) 3,190 Local time Thursday 3:46 PM | |
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Weather 18°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 52% Humidity Points of interest Canal du Midi, Eburomagus, Maison de l'archéologie de Bram, Écluse de Bram | ||
Bram is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Bram is part of the old province of Lauragais, and is 790 km from Paris.
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Map of 11150 Bram, France
History
The CD33 road to the village follows the Roman road, the Romans settling in the area because of a climate which balanced the warmth of the Mediterranean with the freshness of the Atlantic. In 60BCE, they began construction of Bram and called it Eburomagus. Roman remains suggest the town was less round than the current town. Eburomagus disappeared.
The modern town was born in the 12th century, built around its fortress church.The only way into the village was by a gate to the east.
Bram was a centre of Cathar belief, a heresy from Christianity. Their difference from Rome brought the intervention of Simon de Montfort who, following a Spanish monk who became St Dominic, besieged the town in 1210. He succeeded in three days and took revenge on resistants by cutting off the top lip of all his prisoners and gouging out the eyes of all but one. For the last he gouged out only one eye so that he could lead the others out of the town to the château of Lastours .
By the 17th century Bram had outgrown its walls and expanded in concentric circles.