Description
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.
Among the largest and most powerful bastides of the South-West, Villeneuve-sur-Lot boasts a rich heritage: the high red brick towers of Pujols and Paris (14th century), the Pont des Cieutat, the Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bout-du-Pont, the Halle (19th century Baltard architecture), the church of Sainte Catherine, the Moulin de Gajac and the site of Eysses. You also come here for a laugh during the festival of the same name in Jul