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Bastide (planned town)Lot-et-Garonne

Bastide du Temple-du-Breuil

Le Temple-sur-Lot

Dimensions
The commandery of the 13th to 16th centuries, with its towers, its chapel, its spiral staircase and its vaulted cellars; the churches of Notre-Dame, Saint-Caprais and Saint-Gervais in the commune. No bastide plan with orthogonal streets is visible, according to the Fédération des bastides d'Aquitaine.
Period
Templar commandery of the 13th century; passage to the Hospitallers after 1312; paréage of 1318; commandery altered until the 16th century.
What stands there
The commandery is among the monuments cited by Wikipedia. An Anglo-Hospitaller paréage bastide of 1318 which remained without urban development, according to the Fédération des bastides d'Aquitaine.

Le Temple-sur-Lot, in the valley of the Lot near Villeneuve, owes its name to a commandery of the Templars built in the 13th century, which became a Hospitaller commandery when the property of the order of the Temple was devolved. It is under this name of Temple-du-Breuil, or du Bruhle, that the Wikipedia list of bastides places it among the foundations of Edward II in 1318, and the Fédération des bastides d'Aquitaine confirms that a deed of paréage appears to have been made in 1318 with the king of England to create the bastide of Temple-du-Breuil, the dissolution of the Templars in 1312 having transferred the commandery to the Hospitallers. But there seems to have been no urban development with orthogonal streets: the new town remained a project, and it is the commandery, with its towers, its chapel, its spiral staircase and its vaulted cellars, that makes the interest of the place today.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the village. The Latour-Marliac water lily garden is in the commune.

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

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Ambient sound

Bastide du Temple-du-Breuil
Danaë Peperkamp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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