Pyrenees Boulevard

n the XVII century where you are standing now, you would be outside the town walls, thats why in 1663, Jean-Jacques Séguier de la Verrerie, building Historical Monument which is in front of the Memorial.
Imagine that between the seventeenth and the XIX century the ramparts, the ditches and the canals, that protected the city, disappear successively to give place to the Pyrenees Boulevard called for a while “Boulevard des fossés” which means Ditches boulevard which is now the village centre.
In the nineteenth century, on the site of the ramparts, large town houses are built, with gardens and pavillons. The whole of the Pyrenees boulevard with its houses with its gardens becomes one of the attractions of the urban landscape of Lombez at the time of the sub-prefecture.
Take a 5 minutes walk down Pyrenees boulevard to the Save bridge.