Since the second century BCE, Bram Gallo-Roman (formerly Eburomagus)
developed in the middle of the plain Fresquel, natural outlet to the
Limouxin,the Razes, Ariege and Black Mountain.
In the medieval times, it wove its flying
stone robe around its beautiful church, offering air looks concentric streets.
They mark the stages of its development as furrows: the magic of
"circulades" living witnesses of the successive phases of
construction of the city!
Bram continued to grow over the civilizations and thanks
to its unique position became rapidly a strategic place : the
Way of Aquitaine is the firstexample, wide and straight, allowing to
easily join Toulouse and Narbonne. With the Canal du Midi much later
(seventeenth century), which PROMOTED economic development. Thanks to
the railway and motorway of the two seas today, last Bram road linking the main
European axes, to complete its economic development.
Thus, historically, Bram was able to enroll in his time, ensuring its
own development that harness its geographical position.
But
Bram has jealously keep track of its past and its heritage evidenced today:
circular village church, Lordat Castle, Park Essar[t]s, Canal du
Midi, and especially the archaeological museum "eburomagus" which shows through more than 4000 pieces of the past buried rich western Aude ...
