Labastide-d'Armagnac

Labastide -d'Armagnac is a commune with 689 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Landes department in the region of Aquitaine. Historically, the place is part of the former province of Gascony.

Location

Labastide -d'Armagnac situated on the River Douze about 82 km ( driving distance ) north-west of the city and also about 132 kilometers south of Bordeaux. The nearest major town is Mont -de- Marsan about 29 kilometers south-west.

Demographics

Economy

The town developed after its creation is fast becoming a regional craft and trade center for the numerous villages, hamlets and isolated farmsteads in the SURROUNDINGS, is also a wine is grown, the juice of the grape is however processed rarely wine, but - after extensive distillation - in oak barrels to ' Armagnac ' matures.

History

The Bastide was founded in 1291 by Bernard d' Armagnac under the name of Bolonia. The English King Edward I granted permission to do so. However, in the vernacular of the place was called from the beginning Labastide -d'Armagnac. In the 16th century, the later French king Henry IV stayed several times in the small town.

Attractions

  • The central square ( Place Notre -Dame or Place Royale ) is the optical figurehead of the place. The two-storey houses were originally all traufständisch to place surface. My ground floor is open arcades or pillars or timber frame constructions and thus provides excellent weather protection. While mostly merchants and craftsmen settled there in earlier times, some of the premises are now used as cafes, ice cream parlors and restaurants.
  • Maison Malartic Henry of Navarre held after his flight from Paris several times. The owner of the property was a faithful friend and companion in arms of the later French king.
  • The Église Notre -Dame falls primarily by a massive western tower, the keep the inhabitants of the place for a former defense tower ( donjon ), which in 15-16. Century has been integrated into the new building of the church. Inside, the church acts as well as not -fortified - the broad and bright ship is decorated with an intricate late Gothic ribbed vault, the thrust forces - optical - are caught by delicate side service bundles; laterally to the nave close to chapels. Note the painted in trompe- l'oeil style architecture scenery of the flat, nichtapsidialen choir circuit, which - like the maßwerklosen window - give an idea of ​​the style of the Renaissance. The church was recognized in 1970 as a monument historique.
  • The vaults beneath the adjacent town hall ( mairie ) were used in times of crisis as a granary. In addition, there was also a prison cell.
  • About two miles out is the simple Romanesque Église de Géou or Église Notre -Dame des Cyclistes, so called because here every year at Pentecost takes place a cyclist meeting since the 1950s, which goes back to the ideas and initiatives of the cycling enthusiastic pastor. The building now serves no more sacred purposes; Rather, it is a kind of pilgrimage for cycling enthusiasts from around the world. One of the new stained glass window showing the Madonna - framed on each side by a rainbow, which can be also easily identified as a velodrome. This church is recognized as a monument historique since 1980 or since 1998.
  • Also outside of town is a former Protestant church - the so-called Temple. The first - urban - Church of the Protestants at the site fell victim to an arson attack - you did not want other faiths in the city. The present building dates from 1607; after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685 was the ' temple ' is closed and used as a barn, etc.. It is one of the few Protestant monuments in France, who have survived the difficult times of the Huguenots expulsion. Today, the former church serves as a good museum on the history of fortified towns in southwestern France.
  • The Chateau du Prada is one erected in the style of classicism country house from the 1764. The client wanted ' beautiful and practical ' construction of a and commissioned architect Victor Louis, who was a few years later to design and build the theater of Bordeaux, with planning. The building was recognized in 1984 as a monument historique.
  • Just outside the town is a former wash house ( lavoir ) from the 19th century.

Gallery

Église Notre -Dame

Our Lady of the Cyclistes

Chateau du Prada

Others

Maybe was the great central square of Labastide d' Armagnac the impetus for a similar construction project of Henri IV in Paris - the Place des Vosges.

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