Montferrand occupies the highest of the surrounding hills (289 m). The belvedere offers a beautiful panorama on the Lauragais furrow and its communication routes (road, highway, railway, Canal du Midi with the threshold of Naurouze), on the Black Mountain in the northeast and beyond the hills of La Trap, south, on the Pyrenees.
Site of a probable Celtic oppidum, the place is called Elusiodunum in 75 BC. The habitat developed then in the plain along the way of Aquitaine until the eleventh century. Then the population gathers on the hill behind the walls of a castrum which will soon take the name of Montferrand. During the crusade of the Albigenses, the castle is besieged in May 1211 by Simon de Montfort, a negotiated surrender avoids the destruction of the place.
Today, Montferrand has more than 500 inhabitants and its formerly rural population has diversified...
