Montastruc-la-Conseillère

Montastruc-la-Conseillère

Montastruc-la-Conseillère, some twenty kilometres north-east of Toulouse on the road to Albi, is a small bastide perched on a promontory of the hills of the Girou. Wikipedia's Liste de bastides dates it to 1241, without naming a founder, and both the town hall and the communauté de communes present it as a former bastide. Its name comes from the Latin Mons Astrux, astruc being the Languedoc word for a plough team; the nickname la Conseillère, that of a place called so, is said to come from the portrait of the wife of a counsellor of the parlement of Toulouse, the lord of Ouvrier, displayed in a shop and recognised by passers-by. The town keeps its market hall, its church of Saint-Barthélemy and houses of timber and brick; round about, the château de Lasserre, raised in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Bernuy family, the château de La Conseillère and the château de Campagne (1824) bear witness to a rich heritage of manor houses.

Getting there : Free access to the town and the market hall. No market times documented.

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

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