Based in the middle of the XI-th century around a convent and successively, Sauveté, Bastide Comtale, then Bastide Royale at the end of the XIII-th, it was a typical example of urban development in Moyen-Age.
It is necessary to get lost in the maze of alleys and arched passages and to stop(arrest) in front of ogivales doors, towers of defence, place with arches, large impressive houses...
The church, dedicated to the Holy Sepulchre, is a beautiful Romanic building in shape of Greek cross. To the XIV-th, his(its,her) oriental apse was destroyed(annulled) to give way to an ample nef Gothic, sensational of light, leaned by chapels and ended by a head in five pieces.
In the darker, Romanic part(party), convenient to the peace and to the consideration, one can admire a cycle of murals of the XIV-th representing pélerins provided with the shell and the legend of the depended pendu, giving evidence of the importance of the stage for coming pélerins of Conques
and Figeac in the direction of Saint-Jacques de Compostelle.
A workshop(studio) of creation of tins maintains the ancestral craft tradition.
For any information or demand of documentation, please, contact the Office of Villefranche-de-Rouergue's tourism.
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