Montesquieu-Volvestre - Saint Victor

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 bastide-layout - and so there is a central square and the parish church right in its center. Saint Victor was erected in the typical gothique méridional style from red bricks just after the town was founded. The church is fortified - the tower reaches 32 meters.