Casseneuil

Casseneuil is a municipality with 2315 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in France, in the department of Lot- et- Garonne in the Aquitaine region.

Geography

Casseneuil lies on a natural peninsula at the confluence of the right tributary Lède in the Lot. Immediately before this confluence also opens the Sône in the Lède, which further increases the heavily influenced by the water of the city.

History

• The origins of the city date back to Gallo-Roman times. She was at that time under the name known Cassinogilum, which means, as " clearing in the oak forest ."

• Thanks to the strategic position it was heavily fortified in the Middle Ages.

• During the Albigensian Crusades against the Cathars in 1209, the city was besieged and taken. Here is the first stake of the war was ignited and burned many heretics. During the summer of 1214, the city of Simon IV de Montfort was besieged again, conquered and largely killed the inhabitants.

• On April 12, 1229, the Count of Toulouse, Raymond VII obliged by the Treaty of Meaux- Paris, among other things, to destroy the walls of 30 fixtures, among them Casseneuil.

Attractions

• Church of Saints Peter and Paul from the 13th century, rebuilt several times.
• Remains of the city fortifications on the banks of Lède.