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May 31st, 2009
Sauveterre-de-Rouergue 120262 12800
Aveyron Midi-Pyrénées
44,220 2,317 479 m

Streets and arcades.

One sight.
Other sight.

Sauveterre-de-Rouergue is a bastide, new city of the Middle Ages, founded at the end of the 13th century by William de Mâcon, seneschal of Rouergue, on order of the King de France Philippe III le Hardi.

Bastides are new cities founded in the southwest of France between 1222 and 1373, divided on 14 departments, for political, economic, demographic and security reasons.
To attract the inhabitants, they gave them economic, fiscal, judicial, honorific privileges.

They are often constructed with a grid layout of intersecting streets and sometimes circular, around a vast place, said in arcades, topped up in the facades of houses after their building.

Sauveterre-de-Rouergue is a French commune, located in the department of Aveyron of the Midi-Pyrénées, populated of 832 Sauveterrats in 1999, distributed out of 24 km², that is to say 35 hab./km².

Sauveterre is on the last foothills of the Massif Central, on the plateau of Ségala, says the country of the hundred valleys, "le Pays des cent vallées".

Sauveterre-de-Rouergue is one of Plus Beaux Villages de France, most beautiful France villages.

My images of Sauveterre-de-Rouergue.

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