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Bastide de Granges-sur-Lot

Granges-sur-Lot

Dimensions
The village keeps a regular network of streets and a square of about 55 metres close to the Lot, a situation typical of a port bastide. The church of Saints-Côme-et-Damien, Romanesque and earlier than the bastide, was enlarged in the 15th century. The café Le Sébastopol, on the square, is a monument historique. Market hall, ramparts or gates are not reported in the texts.
Period
Romanesque church earlier than the bastide; paréage of 1291; ruin as early as 1363; church enlarged in the 15th century; combat of Granges in 1621-1622.
What stands there
A bastide belonging to the Fédération des Bastides d'Aquitaine. The café Le Sébastopol has been inscribed as a monument historique since 1998; the church of Saints-Côme-et-Damien is recorded in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.

On the bank of the Lot, between Clairac and Castelmoron, Granges-sur-Lot is a port bastide born of a monastic grange. The place was first called Damien, after the Romanesque church of Saints-Côme-et-Damien which existed before the new town, and it was in 1291 that a representative of Edward I, duke of Aquitaine, concluded a paréage with the abbot of Clairac, master of the lands, to found a bastide there. The regular network of streets and a square of about fifty-five metres close to the river still bear witness to this English creation, ruined as early as 1363 at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. The village has remained in memory above all for the combat of Granges, in 1621 or 1622 according to the sources, which set Catholics against Protestants during Louis XIII's reassertion of control over the South-West and cost the lives of four hundred and fifty men of the Catholic camp.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the village. Weekly market on Thursday according to the Fédération des Bastides d'Aquitaine; no tourist office 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 Granges-sur-Lot
Jacques MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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