Bastide de Montmaurin

Montmaurin

Montmaurin, in the Comminges, some fifteen kilometres from Saint-Gaudens, is known above all for its Gallo-Roman villa of Lassalles and its prehistoric caves. The village itself nonetheless has a medieval origin as a new town: the Wikipedia page for the commune reports that this fief, within the Comminges sphere before 1270, was taken into the Foix castellany of Saint-Plancard in the last third of the 13th century, and that this lordship is at the origin of the creation of the bastide of Montmaurin. Wikipedia's list of bastides gives the date 1317. Above the gorges of the Seygouade, the fortified site of the Castet, or castrum of Roquebrune, goes back to the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century and disappears from the texts after 1343. The church of the Assomption is the parish church.

Getting there : Free access to the village. The Gallo-Roman villa and the museum come under the Centre des monuments nationaux; times not documented here.

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

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