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Bastide de Grenade-sur-l'Adour

Grenade-sur-l'Adour

Dimensions
The rectangular plan of the bastide remains legible, with its very large central place des Tilleuls, which has kept part of its covered arcades and timber-framed fronts; the arcades lined all four sides until the 19th century. The church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Gothic of the 15th century, presents a front with two towers of 1833. The market hall on the square disappeared in 1794; the bridge over the Adour is a metal structure of the 1920s.
Period
Bastide founded in 1322; church of the second half of the 15th century, vaults of the 18th, front of 1833; Capuchin convent in 1642; walls altered in 1755 and 1814; market hall destroyed in 1794.
What stands there
The front with two towers of the church, raised in 1833, is classified as a monument historique. Grenade belongs to the Fédération des Bastides d'Aquitaine and was the chief town of a canton from 1800. Its charter of franchises of 1322 is one of the most detailed of the Landes bastides.

Grenade-sur-l'Adour is a port bastide founded on 2 May 1322 on the bank of the Adour by Jeanne d'Artois, viscountess of Béarn and of Marsan, in paréage with the commander of the hospital of Saint-Antoine de Goloni. Its name, Terra granata, is said to evoke a wheat-bearing land, and its reason for being was to export the produce of the Marsan by the river. The rectangle within the walls, two hundred and thirty metres by a hundred and forty, defended by the Adour, a wall and a ditch, is ordered around a very large square of seventy-five metres by seventy, the place des Tilleuls, which has kept part of its covered arcades and its timber-framed fronts. The Gothic church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, of the 15th century, received in 1833 a front with two towers, classified. A stopping place of Charles VII in 1422, taken by the Protestants in 1569, Grenade remains a living town of the Landes Adour.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the town and to the place des Tilleuls. The medieval charter provided for a market on Mondays; no present market day or time is documented in the texts.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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Bastide de Grenade-sur-l'Adour
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