subject: Travel Guide For Mont Cassel [print this page] With its 176 meters of altitude, Mont Cassel is an outlier, a relic of the Tertiary. Cassel largely dominates the plain of the French and Belgian Flanders Marine, but not the regional climax, which is the Mount of Baives (239 m).
On current maps, we can see the importance of the old Roman roads that radiate in straight lines around Cassel, still drawing the borders of neighboring communities (to Dunkirk to Watten, to Aire-sur-la-Lys). There was actually more of Roman roads that one can not guess because in Roman times, Cassel was one of two major road junctions in northern Gaul. Since the park at the top of the mountain, these tracks are easily distinguishable to the naked eye.
Before the arrival of the Romans the city was one of the famous hill forts that served as a principal city of the people Morini: it was then called Castellum morinorum who later became Castellum menapiorum Menapii under the Roman times when the city will be given by Menapii Carinas which has also received a "triumph" for his victory in Rome.
Mont Cassel thanks to the Romans becomes an important urban center for Menapii. Its Latin name was "Castellum menapiorum" (from the Latin castellum: castle and menapiorum: the Menapii). The name derives from Cassel castellum by Germanic phonetic rules.
- In the tenth century, Baldwin III of Flanders established the first fair.
"Beautiful city dismantled & castellany of France, in Flanders, Lille generality. It is remarkable for the three battles which are made of data near its walls, against Philip I, King of France, who was defeated by Robert the Frifon, Count of Flanders in 1071, against Philip the Fair, who won a victory compleat as the subjects of the Count of Flanders outraged, and the city in 1318 faccagea & cons Philip, Duke of Orleans, who, in 1677 it defeated the Prince of Orange, and took the city. It was ceded to France in 1678 by the Treaty of Nijmegen.
She is on a mountain, where is the terraffe himself a former castle. It enjoys one of the most beautiful views of the universe. This terraffe, we discover thirty-two cities, a greater space of sea, and the coasts of England, 6 li. Sea, 4 n. e. Saint-Omer, 7 f. e. Gravelines, 6 f. e. Dunkirk, and long. 20 d. 9 '9 "lat. 50 d. 47' 54". This city is built in length, with the large market place or in the middle, adorned with a beautiful fountain. There are two colleges, who do as Parish church, hospital, college, & c.
At that time Cassel still dominates a landscape of dense grove where a few bushes and emerge off Nieppe Forest and Forest Clairmarais. Many orchards, fields (wheat, barley, oats, flax, rapeseed, beet, tobacco, hops, potatoes ..) and pasture (Flemish cow) are protected from the weather and the sun's heat in summer (The Flandre is a region devoid of groundwater).
"This happy country where arable land fertility struggle with the many pastures, is like a vast forest mixed with small clearings, and yet, with the exception of Nieppe forest, wood and some Clairmarais groves, all Plantations seem to cover the earth are those orchards, whose interior is planted with fruit trees, and the edge, usually with one or two cords of elm. In the hedgerows of hawthorn or Prunelier amount of Oaks, Poplars, the Ashes. The roadside is planted Poplars Holland (Wood-white), whose creeping roots firming the soil and absorb moisture, while a wide gap of this effect preserves bordering fields. "
by: Anna Kerry
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