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OT-Meymac-3826

Meymac - ville
office de tourisme  
1 place de l'Hotel de ville  
19250 Meymac (Corrèze)
Tél 05 55 95 18 43 - Fax 05 55 95 66 12

The Romain Maximiacus. Meymac was in the beginning, like numbers cities corréziennes, a simple Gallo-Roman villa. The conquest of Jules César in Gaule allows the installation of two camps to supervise Auvergne. One thus sees appearing Roman ways, of which one which passed on the commune of Meymac (Limoges Mount-Gilds it by Bort-the-Organ), another (Clermont Périgueux) passed in the neighbourhoods of Darnetz. These Roman ways were going to allow the development of the area. The Romans cover Gaule of its villas, of houses of Masters who ordered the exploitation with his buildings, its foremen, its peasant-slaves. It would be thus one of these Masters, Maximiacus, which would have given its name to the agglomeration. The Mammacus hermit: At the time mérovingienne, as of 546, a small church out of wooden organizes the life of the village. A group of Christians would have been born around a Mammacus hermit.

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