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Réalville

Réalville

Dimensions
The place Nationale, surrounded by arcades and old houses of brick or half-timber, inscribed as a monument historique with all the façades and roofs around it; the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste; the church of Saint-Nazaire, recorded in the Mérimée database; the polygonal brick dovecote at the place called Martel; the former abbey of Saint-Marcel; the mound of Almont and its underground refuge.
Period
Royal bastide of 1310-1311; arcaded square and houses of brick or half-timber; abbey of Saint-Marcel; polygonal dovecote.
What stands there
Place Nationale and the façades and roofs of the buildings around it inscribed as monuments historiques. Population of 1,867 inhabitants in 2022. A royal bastide of Philip the Fair, presented by Tarn-et-Garonne Tourisme as "a 14th-century bastide with an arcaded square".

Réalville, Regalis villa, the "king's town", is the latest of the royal bastides of the Tarn-et-Garonne: Philip the Fair founded it in 1310 or 1311, in the plain of the Aveyron between Montauban and Caussade, at the place called Gardemont, and peopled it with the inhabitants of Almont, a hilltop village abandoned for the purpose and whose materials served to build the new town. The charter of customs, granted by a decree dated at Poissy, stands as its birth certificate. The bastide was set up against the very old Benedictine priory of Cayrac and near the Cistercian abbey of Saint-Marcel. It has kept its arcaded place Nationale, lined with old houses of brick or half-timber, whose façades and roofs are inscribed as monuments historiques together with the square itself. The mound of Almont still holds an underground refuge. Under the Revolution, the king's town was called Garde-Mont.

Further reading

Getting there : Free access to the town; the arcaded square is the heart of the village.

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

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Réalville
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