bastide (Akitanya)

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.