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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
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Free. Departure: Tourist Information Office.
September 2022
Saturday 17
16:00 - 18:00
Sunday 18
16:00 - 18:00
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Commune de Miramont-de-Guyenne

1 rue Pasteur, 47800 Miramont-de-Guyenne
  • Lot-et-Garonne
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Discover a 13th century Aquitaine bastide!

For the European Heritage Days, take a break in the Pays de Lauzun and discover the bastide of Miramont-de-Guyenne!
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Free. Departure: Tourist Information Office.
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For the European Heritage Days, take a break in the Pays de Lauzun and discover the bastide of Miramont-de-Guyenne!

Miramont-de-Guyenne is a former royal bastide, called at the beginning «Miramont-de-Lauzon» since founded on the lands of the Duke of Lauzun, around 1280, by Edward I King of England.
Miramont; the city which "targets", which looks at the "mount", to the north, that is to say the hill of "Touvent", has the very particular characters of the English bastides of the south of France.
The bastide went through the vicissitudes of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), and became definitively French in 1453. It even obtained a charter from Charles VIII, in 1494. This rare fact constitutes a peculiarity of our bastide.
The bastides are recognizable, as Miramont-de-Guyenne attests, by a checkered plan organized around a central square. All the main streets leave.
Enter the maze of small streets, let yourself be surprised by our bastide and discover its history to the rhythm of an almost perfect quadrilateral!

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About the location

Commune de Miramont-de-Guyenne
1 rue Pasteur, 47800 Miramont-de-Guyenne
  • Lot-et-Garonne
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Miramont-de-Guyenne is the only Bastide in the country of Lauzun!
At 23 km north-east of Marmande, the royal bastide of Miramont-de-Guyenne was founded on the banks of the Dourdenne by Edouard I Plantagenêt in the 13th century. Even if it was destroyed during the Hundred Years' War, you can see that it kept the typical plan of the new cities of the Middle Ages, checkered with four main axes around a square. On this square, the central building now houses the Town Hall.
Tags
Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Site patrimonial remarquable
Access
Parking Place Humeau.
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