VIDEO. Toulouse from the sky (2/20): discover the Sept-Deniers – Ginestous – Lalande sector
By Pascal PALLAS
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In the north of Toulouse, Sept-Deniers, Ginestous and Lalande form a singular territory, which adapts to the necessary urban development, hosts quality sports and leisure facilities, while keeping its nostalgic accents of the old countryside.
A destiny ultimately similar to the neighboring sector of Borderouge – Croix Daurade – Trois Cocus that we recently presented and together with it make up this market gardening suburb that has long been strategic for supplying the Pink City with fresh vegetables.
Birthplace of the Violet
Here, on the terrace of the Garonne river, on long-grown vegetables, vines and flowers. Lalande provided some 170 ha of meadows and Ginestous 90 ha. True vegetable artists were busy every day, competing in prowess. Thanks to the practice of intercropping (cultivation, on the same bed, of vegetables whose vegetation cycle is not the same), they obtained remarkable yields: 31 tons per hectare.
Discover the 3.2 district of Toulouse thanks to the drone of the Conti studio for Actu Toulouse:
A horse pulling a cart loaded with vegetables took an hour and a half to reach the Arnaud-Bernard wholesale market. On the Estouchure ferry, Kiki the ferryman crossed the canal between the Ponts-Jumeaux and Casselardit. It was only a century ago.
Around the same time, the gardens of Lalande had specialized in violet production. The flowers were sent to Paris or Grasse for the preparation of perfumes. There was the same “cooperative of producers of violets and onions”. It is from her, moreover, that the market gardeners get their fertilizers. It is natural first, coming from the manure of horses and cattle. Later, due to the nearby presence of the Toulouse factory, theNational Industrial Nitrogen Office (ONIA) it becomes chemical…
The Seven Coins, from Job to the Toulouse Stadium
At the heart of this sector, thethe district of Sept-Deniers has a less market gardening vocation, although it was also an agricultural playground for a long time. Its vast meadows were used for grazing. In the Middle Ages, the Capitouls granted the right to Toulouse residents to graze their herds there, benefiting from an annual fee of seven gold deniers, hence the current name of the district.
Urbanized well before and more quickly than Lalande and Ginestous at the start of the 20th centuryand century, it has long been known to host thecigarette paper factory JOB. Built in 1930, the factory enjoyed international influence until the 1980s when it was sold to the Bolloré group. Bought by a German papermaker, JOB ceased its activity in 2001. 5 years later, the premises were bought by the municipality, which converted the site into a cultural place interpreted in 2011.
For forty years, it has been another symbol that has above all brought the reputation of the district: the Ernest Wallon stadiumhome of the biggest rugby club in Europe, the Toulouse stadium. Of Jean-Claude Skrela a Antoine Dupont, the Rouge et Noir have written their finest story here. With a capacity of 19,000 seats, Ernest-Wallon was corrected in 1982 by the France-Romania international match. Since then, it has hosted Stade Toulousain matches. Since 2020, Toulouse Olympique XIII (To XIII) also contest their home matches there.
The district retains a village spirit and benefits from a strategic location, at the gates of Blagnac, near the ring road, motorways, the aeronautical center and the airport.
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