bastide
Sign in to savethumb|Rebuilding of various epochs in the bastide of Monpazier has preserved the market square of the first planning. Bastides () are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides.
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Structural elements
- Central square
- Church
- Houses
- Streets
- City walls
- Structure and location
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Rebuilding of various epochs in the bastide of Monpazier has preserved the market square of the first planning. Bastides () are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides.
Some of the first bastides were built under Raymond VII of Toulouse to replace villages destroyed in the Albigensian Crusade. He encouraged the construction of others to colonize the wilderness, especially of southwest France. Almost 700 bastides were built between 1222 (Cordes-sur-Ciel, Tarn) and 1372 (La Bastide d'Anjou, Tarn).