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Bastide (planned town)Haute-Garonne

Rieumes

Rieumes

Dimensions
The brick market hall of 1829 still occupies the trading centre of the bastide. The church of Saint-Gilles, of 1525, holds an organ by Cavaillé-Coll. The chapel of Notre-Dame, known as de l'Ormette, and the water tower of 1896 complete the route; the GR 86 crosses the commune. The texts describe neither covered arcades nor any remains of an enclosure.
Period
Priory, then castelnau; bastide in 1317; church of 1525; market hall of 1829.
What stands there
The market hall has been inscribed as a monument historique since 2004; the Cavaillé-Coll organ in the church of Saint-Gilles is protected. Rieumes numbered 3,564 inhabitants in 2022.

Rieumes, chief town of the Savès, some forty kilometres south-west of Toulouse, is a bastide with a layered past. The tourist office recalls that the place, whose name is said to evoke a market on the spur, was first a priory of the abbey of Saint-Gilles protected by the count of Toulouse, then a fortified castelnau of the counts of Comminges, and finally a royal bastide; Wikipedia dates the foundation of the bastide to 1317. A place of fairs and markets from time immemorial, the town has kept its merchants' market hall, rebuilt in brick in 1829, and the church of Saint-Gilles raised in 1525 by master masons from Toulouse, where an organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of 1854 sounds. The chapel of Notre-Dame de l'Ormette keeps the memory of a Pietà found at the beginning of the 16th century in an elm.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the town; the market hall hosts the market. The Cœur de Garonne tourist office presents the commune.

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

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Ambient sound

Rieumes
Monuments tale · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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