Labastide-in Armagnac

Geography

The commune is located in the south-west of France, in area of Gascogne, and more precisely in the low Armagnac. It belonged a long time to the Gers, department close to a few kilometers.

History

This country house is founded with the XIIIe century by the count d' Armagnac (a plate being on the Mairie indicates 1291) under the name of Bolonia . It is authorized by the King d' Angleterre Edouard First.

Its town planning testifies to the voluntary character of the foundation of these new cities of the south of France built in a few years, at XIIIe and 14th centuries, by the kings of England and their seneshals. Only the old enclosure disappeared.

The streets and lanes form a checkerwork converging towards a vast rectangular place equipped with arcades, the royal place. Remarkable a Romance church of XIIe to the massive Bell-tower (dating him from the XVe century) and the town hall occupies one on its sides. Covers are there of wood and stone without unit of form or materials. Detail of town planning, on the royal place, the frontages are without pinion, while they are present on the street.

It is most picturesque today of the country house S landaises. The king Henri IV liked to go with the Country house where it resided in a house giving on the Royale place. It is this place which would have inspired it for the creation of the Place from the Vosges in Paris.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Vault of Géou - Site Gallo-Roman.
the Temple of the Country houses - Museum of the Country houses
the Castle of Prada

With the district of Géou, two kilometers of the borough, a modest vault, Notre-Dame of the Cyclists, acceuille regularly amateurs of this sport. It is in years 1950 that the abbot Massié, priest of Créon-in Armagnac, called “the pope of the bicycle touring”, creates this “national sanctuary of the cyclists”. The champions come there in pilgrimage at Pentecost. The original vault dates from the 11th century. The current one was rebuilt on the ruins of the old strengthened city of Géou, burned in 1335 by the Prince Noir.

The scrap-metal, the vineyard, the small valleys and the cotaux ones of this fertile area conceal picturesque sites and a great number of farms and wine storehouses with the traditional rural architecture.

Personalities related to the commune

Sources

Guide of the beautiful villages of France, selection of Reader' S Digest

See too

External bonds

Official site of the City
See Webcam of the village
the Country house of Armagnac on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Country house of Armagnac on the site of INSEE
the Country house of Armagnac on the site of Quid
Localization of the Country house of Armagnac on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan of the Country house on Armagnac on Mapquest
Site perso the old ones of Labastide which remembers

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