Travel Guide Savignac-Mona

Located 7 km east of Samatan, Savignac-Mona, 141 inhabitants, neighbouring the Haute-Garonne. The village spreads out on both sides of the old road, parallel and overlooking the current departmental road from Samatan to Toulouse via Saint-Lys. Its composite name does not result, as one might imagine, from the merger of two former communes. It is to differentiate the Savignac gersois from the 10 other Savignacs in France. In order to avoid confusion and to facilitate the work of the Post Office administration, a local precision was imposed in the 19th century. The west-east relief, from Aussoue to Savignac, is called "côte de Mona". Hence Savignac-Mona.On the territory of the commune, several ancient sites have been discovered including an ancient funerary inscription on a marble plaque and a treasure of about twenty coins with the cross of the Volques-Tectosages. The first mention of the "castrum" of Savignac dates back to 1240 during a count carried out by the Comminges-Savès family. The seigneury passed to the Lambès-Savignacs, a powerful regional family. Arnaud-Guilham de Lambès-Savignac, the "Lord of Savinhac", whose two brothers were killed on Saint-Barthélemy's Day in Toulouse (1572), was responsible for the construction of the square-planned castle of Savignac. Begun in 1540, it was completed in 1580, and in 1595 the lordship passed to Jean-Louis de Pardailhan-Gondrin, uncle of the Marquis de Montespan, through his marriage to Angélique de Lambès. The couple had no children and the castle went to his son, born of a previous marriage, Jean de Pardailhan-Gondrin. Upon his death in 1700, his wife Marie Félicie de Crussol D'Uzès inherited it. The Crussol family sold Savignac in the middle of the 18th century to Jean Vassal, Treasurer General of France in Toulouse, who sold it in 1770 to Guillaume-Joseph d'Omezon (Domezon), also Treasurer of France in Toulouse.Theproperty will remain in his descendants until its sale to private individuals in 2018.The economic activity of Savignac-Mona is essentially agricultural. There are about fifteen farms in the commune. Cereal and oilseed crops are grown and livestock breeding is carried out within the framework of reasoned, controlled and environmentally friendly agriculture. Beautiful view of the Pyrenees.