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Beaumont-de-Lomagne

Beaumont-de-Lomagne

Dimensions
At the centre, the great market hall of the 14th century, bordered by covered arcades on two sides, and the church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, a semi-fortress of brick begun about 1280 whose mass dominates the town, crowned by an octagonal bell tower of Toulouse type. Around them, some fifteen town houses, among them the hôtel Toureilh of the 17th century, now the town hall, and the hôtel de Fermat. The ramparts disappeared in 1777.
Period
Bastide of 1276-1279; church begun about 1280, bell tower of the 15th century; market hall of the 14th century; ramparts destroyed in 1777.
What stands there
Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption classified as a monument historique as early as 1843. Birthplace of Pierre de Fermat, turned into a museum. Population of 3,754 inhabitants in 2022. One of the most complete bastides in the Tarn-et-Garonne, with market hall, covered arcades and fortified church.

Beaumont-de-Lomagne is the great royal bastide of the Lomagne, on the bank of the Gimone, halfway between Montauban and Auch. It was born in 1276 of an act of paréage between the Cistercian abbey of Grandselve and King Philip the Bold, represented by his seneschal of Toulouse Eustache de Beaumarchais, and received in 1278 a charter of customs that Wikipedia judges "very liberal for the period". From 1280 a church with a flat chevet of Cistercian inspiration was going up, its bell tower of the 15th century recalling that of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse. Taken by the English in 1345, delivered in 1350, a Catholic town ringed by Protestant ones, sold to the king of Navarre in 1577 and then to the prince of Condé in 1639, the town has been through every storm of the Midi. It keeps a market hall of the 14th century with an enormous timber frame, covered arcades, some fifteen town houses and the birthplace of the mathematician Pierre de Fermat.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the town. A tourist centre is installed in the hôtel de Fermat, and a Fermat museum occupies the mathematician's birthplace.

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

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Beaumont-de-Lomagne
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