Summary
Follow Pat's adventures in the Dordogne, every month in FindaProperty Southwest France is dotted with fortified towns, many of them built by the English in the Middle Ages.
Known as "bastides" they are all built to a similar pattern based on a grid system of roadways often within a walled surround.See the full content of this document
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Medieval Dangers
They were built in this way for the people who lived within them as a defence against attack from marauding gangs or military forces.
Monpazier in the Dordogne is r...See the full content of this document
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