Visitez Orthez : La cité médiévale

Discover Orthez, the former capital of Béarn, and a city with a rich historical past for a guided tour of about 2 hours. The main monuments of this medieval city will allow you to retrace the events that marked Béarn, the pilgrimage, the creation of the bastides, Protestantism.....On the heights, the 13th century Château Moncade where Gaston Fébus lived, the Hôtel de la Lune, a beautiful building which welcomes the pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, the Maison de Jeanne d'Albret, a 15th and 16th century manor house in which the Jeanne d'Albret museum retraces four centuries of history in Béarn, from the Reformation to the beginning of the 20th century, but also the Pont Vieux, the emblem of the town, with its tower and its uneven arches.