Gaillac

Gaillac is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. It had in 2013 a populace of 14,334 populations. The metropolis became based inside the 2nd century CE by means of the Gauls who created a river port where they exported their wine into Gallia Narbonensis. When Aquitania becomes conquered by way of Rome, Gaillac received prosperity with its wine. However the barbarian invasions annihilated the metropolis and left not anything in the back of.

It become handiest when the priests of Saint Michel won viticulture privileges from the Bishop of Albi, in 972, that the population stabilized and Gaillac started out to become a city once more. Their wines have been at the start dispatched to Bordeaux in which they would be exported to England. The Abbey of St Michel became built in the 10^th century and rebuilt in 1271. In 1524 the abbey become secularized but the identify of abbey retained. During the spiritual wars the Gaillacois refused to change their faith and remained Catholics and were chased out of the town by means of Protestants. They took refuge at Castelnau de Montmiral.