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Lisle-sur-Tarn

Lisle-sur-Tarn

Dimensions
Regular layout of streets at right angles forming four quarters, once bounded by four fortified gates; central square with covered arcades of 4,425 m², lined with façades of red brick and half-timber; the Griffoul fountain, made between 1250 and 1270, moved to the parc Rochegude in Albi at the end of the 19th century and since brought back; the church of Notre-Dame de la Jonquière of the 13th-14th centuries; the dovecotes of La Croix-de-Molles and of the château de Lastours.
Period
Bastide founded after 1229; Griffoul fountain 1250-1270; church of Notre-Dame de la Jonquière 13th-14th centuries; Chamber of the Edict in 1579.
What stands there
Church of Notre-Dame de la Jonquière classified as a monument historique since 1886, with many objects in the Palissy database. Raymond Lafage museum. A commune of 8,656 hectares, one of the largest in the department, 4,857 inhabitants in 2022; canton of Vignobles et Bastides.

On the bank of the Tarn, between Gaillac and Rabastens, Lisle was born of the peace of 1229: the ramparts of the fortified village of Montaigut having been dismantled after the Albigensian Crusade, its inhabitants settled near a hermitage and the castle of Belbézé, and the count of Toulouse authorised a new town, surrounded by walls and ditches, which its inhabitants named La Yla, the island. Four consuls elected each year, a landing stage, mills, a toll, fairs and markets: the privileges made the fortune of a wine port that shipped its branded casks as far as Bordeaux. The plan has remained intact, four quarters of streets at right angles once closed by four gates around a square with covered arcades of 4,425 m², one of the largest of the bastides of the South-West, where the Griffoul fountain of the 13th century held pride of place, back now from Albi.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the town and to the square with covered arcades; Raymond Lafage museum. Fairs and markets are among the medieval privileges; no current times are documented in the texts.

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Lisle-sur-Tarn
Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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