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CIAO ADRIANO
The Bastide of Villeneuve d'Aveyron and Villefranche-de-Rouergue
October 2007
THE ROUTE TO DATE WITH MAPS OF FRANCE AND OF ITS MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE ROADS
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A Priory was set up here as a dependency of the (by then) Clunaic Abbey of St-Pierre, Moissac in the 1000s. The Priory church had a Greek Cross footprint.
In 1231 one of the awful Raymonds of Toulouse (number VII) set up a bastide based on the village around the priory, which was further upgraded when it was designated "Royal" 40 years later. At the same time the east side of the church was knocked down, and a nave was added so that the church became a Latin cross and reflected the Bastide's new found status.
Our journey here was to have a look at one of the more attractive Bastides, and then to see the frescos of pilgrims which have survived against all odds in the north apse of the old Greek Cross Romanesque priory church.
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