Maisons

17th and 19th centuries
The town's main street is home to a number of old houses, with facades 5 to 7 meters wide and 15 to 20 meters deep. These buildings testify to the existence of an ancient medieval subdivision system. This is characteristic of bastides, mercantile villages - housing markets - and street villages. Known as "Casal", this type of subdivision is the result of a rational method of occupying land in order to bring together scattered populations. The creation of these new villages began with the suburbs or agglomerations of "castelnaud", then rapidly became widespread, with the arrival of bastides, new towns and free towns in the third third of the 13th century. Inhabitants were given a "cazal", or allotment, where they had to build the front wall in the first year and the second wall in the following three years...