Montesquieu-Volvestre - La Halle

Raymond VII, the Count of Toulouse, who signed the Treaty of Paris (1229), that ended the Albigensian Crusade and the political autonomy of Occitan, founded the town in a loop of the River Arize in 1238 as a bastide.

The town still has the typical layout - and a central square right in its center. Here is the market hall and behind Saint-Victor, the parish church.