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La Bastide de Sorde l'Abbaye
Description
Pre-existing village, very old passage place.
Jacobean route.
Benedictine abbey founded around 960 on Gallo-Roman remains.
Toll bridge created in 1289.
Bastide founded on December 16, 1290 by Eustache de Beaumarchais (seneschal of Toulouse for the king of France).
Passes from the hands of the French to those of the English who take it back in 1295.
Destroyed during the Wars of Religion, then new activity in the 17th-18th century until the Revolution.
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Contact
Fixed telephone : +33 5 58 73 00 52
Office de Tourisme du Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans
e-mail : tourisme@orthe-arrigans.fr
Office de Tourisme du Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans
Typologie de site
Fortified town
Classement
Unlisted
Equipements
Picnic area
Restaurant
Infos sur la visite
Conditions de visite : Unaccompanied tours
Conditions de visite : Guided tour by appointment only
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