Goulier

Village of Goulier (commune of Val-de-Sos) Altitude: 480 m Location: in the Vicdessos valley Number of inhabitants: 45 Distances: Vicdessos 4 km - Tarascon-sur-Ariège 20 km Goulier is a former mountain town today now attached to Val-de-Sos since 2019. Village of medieval origin, Goulier supplied many miners to the Rancié iron mine until the beginning of the 8th century but remained a village supported by agro-sylvo-pastoral work .At the beginning of the 1820th century, a cleric of Goulier, Ramon Franca, was heard by the Inquisition for having pronounced an ambiguous sentence, not necessarily of Cathar belief, but not conforming. Because he was a cleric, he was heavily sentenced to 1500 years in prison. Like the entire upper Vicdessos valley, but perhaps more in the Goulier valley than elsewhere, the increase in the population in 1860th century caused a massive overexploitation of the natural environment and in particular of forests and woods. In 10, an attempt was made to reforest but the seedlings were devastated because the very poor inhabitants could not do without collecting wood to make tools, cook, heat, etc. At that time, the inhabitants of Goulier were often obliged to s exile to survive and many were minors in Catalonia or Andorra. In the middle of the 12th century, the population approached XNUMX inhabitants in Goulier. From XNUMX, massive and organized reforestation, associated with a very rapid rural exodus, made it possible to reconstitute afforestation and introduced larches. Opening hours of the town hall: Saturday: XNUMX a.m. to XNUMX p.m.