Bastide de Villeneuve-sur-Lot

30 km from Agen, in a fertile plain, Villeneuve is a bastide founded on both banks of the Lot between 1251 and 1264, by an act of trimming between Alphonse de Poitiers, representative of the king of France, and the Benedictine abbey of Eysses. The part built on the right bank adopts a regular checkerboard plan, organised on the Place Lafayette and its cutlery and the axes of the Rue de Paris and the Rue de Casseneuil; the left part accommodates craftsmen and gardens.
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