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Vieux Cazaubon

Cazaubon

Dimensions
Vieux Cazaubon lines up its 13th-century arcades and half-timbered houses around the town hall, the former church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and a former convent. Two town gates remain: the porte du Hourrat to the west and the porte d'Uzan, known as the lower gate, to the south. A 12th-century hospice with exposed beams. At Barbotan, the church of Saint-Pierre, of the 15th and 16th centuries, is also a town gate, built on piles, and a Renaissance doorway of the 16th century.
Period
13th-century village, walled town under Philip the Fair; lordship ceded to the Armagnacs in the 14th century; devastation by the Black Prince at Barbotan in 1355; new church completed in 1870.
What stands there
Renaissance doorway of the 16th century inscribed as a monument historique since 1925; town gate of Barbotan inscribed since 1926. Vieux Cazaubon has been classed as a bastide according to Wikipedia. The lac de l'Uby, of 80 hectares, borders the commune.

In the Bas-Armagnac, Cazaubon superimposes two villages: Vieux Cazaubon, a medieval village of arcades and half-timbered houses, and Barbotan-les-Thermes, a spa town born of the hot springs. Vieux Cazaubon, dated to the 13th century, has been classed as a bastide; it grew up beside the castle of the lords of Cazaubon, descendants of Frédelon, Count of Gaure, then of the Lisle-Jourdain family, and became a walled town when Philip the Fair granted it rights and franchises. Two gates remain, the porte du Hourrat to the west and the porte d'Uzan to the south. Reverting to the crown after the hanging in Paris, in 1323, of the brigand son of Jourdain V, the lordship was ceded to the Count of Armagnac. At Barbotan, the church of Saint-Pierre, built on piles above the hot mud, also serves as a town gate.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to Vieux Cazaubon and its gates. Tourist office of Barbotan-les-Thermes in the commune; opening times not documented. No market documented in the texts.

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

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Vieux Cazaubon
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