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Bastide (planned town)

Bastides are new towns founded mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries in south-west France, laid out around a central square; several began as a paréage, a pact between a lord and a king. 154 places across 15 departments or regions, mostly Lot-et-Garonne (26), Haute-Garonne (23) and Gers (18). Among them: Bastide de Domme et sa porte des Tours, Montauban, Bastide de Sainte-Foy-la-Grande and Bastide d'Eymet et son château.

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Ariège (11)

Aude (6)

Aveyron (6)

Charente-Maritime (1)

Dordogne (12)

Gers (18)

Gironde (8)

Haute-Garonne (23)

Hautes-Pyrénées (4)

Landes (7)

Lot (7)

Lot-et-Garonne (26)

Pyrénées-Atlantiques (6)

Tarn (8)

Tarn-et-Garonne (11)

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