Quint-Fonsegrives, Haute-Garonne Département, Occitanie, France

🇫🇷 Quint-Fonsegrives is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in south-western France.

Historically and culturally, the municipality is in the Toulouse Country, which extends around Toulouse along the Garonne valley, bordered to the west by the slopes of the Savès, to the east by those of Lauragais and to the south by those of the Ariège and Volvestre valleys. Exposed to an altered oceanic climate, it is drained by the Saune and various other small rivers. The municipality has a remarkable natural heritage: a protected area (the "Rome wet hyacinth meadows in the municipalities of Saint-Orens-de-Gameville and Quint-Fonsegrives") and two natural areas of ecological, faunal and floristic interest.

Quint-Fonsegrives is an urban municipality having experienced a sharp increase in population since 1962. It is in the Toulouse agglomeration and is part of the Toulouse attraction area.

The architectural heritage of the municipality includes a building protected as historical monuments: the house Les Tourettes, registered in 1978.

The nearest municipalities are: Flourens (3.2 km),Balma (3.6 km), Saint-Orens-de-Gameville (3.8 km), Lauzerville (4.5 km), Pin-Balma (4.7 km), Mons (4.8 km), Aigrefeuille (5.5 km),Auzielle (6.7 km).

Historically and culturally, Quint-Fonsegrives is part of the Toulouse country, a belt of fertile plains interspersed with tree groves, with soft hills strewn with pink brick farms, inevitably nibbled by the urban planning of the suburbs.

Communication routes and transport The high-level service bus line Linéo L1 of the Tisséo network ends in the Entiore district west of Quint-Fonsegrives and also serves the city clinic, and connects these places to the city centre of Toulouse to the Sept Deniers district. Line 83 also serves Entiore and the clinic by connecting these places to the Balma - Gramont station of the Toulouse metro, line 84 connects the college and the city centre of the municipality to the Balma - Gramont station, line 104 serves the city centre to Balma Ribaute (on the Linéo L1 line) from Aigrefeuille, line 106 serves the municipality.

Companies and businesses The five companies with their head office in the municipal territory that generate the most turnover in 2020 are: • Asept Inmed, wholesale trade (business-to-business trade) of pharmaceutical products (€43,021k) • SAS Santerne Toulouse, construction of electricity and telecommunications networks (€35,365k) • Capio La Croix Du Sud, hospital activities (€29,697k) • CB Constructions, construction of other buildings (€13,831k) • Weber Marking Systems France SAS, wholesale trade (business-to-business trade) of various supplies and equipment for trade and services (€9,621k)

Agriculture The municipality is in the Lauragais, a small agricultural region occupying the north-east of the Haute-Garonne department, whose hillsides carry large dry crops with a dominant durum wheat and sunflower. In 2020, the technical-economic orientation of agriculture on the municipality is polyculture and/or polybreeding. Three farms with their headquarters in the municipality are counted in the 2020 agricultural census (13 in 1988). The agricultural area used is 124 ha.