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.

Saint Victor, the fortified parish church, was erected in the typical gothique méridional style from red bricks just after the town was founded.

The small crypt was completely dark - so I used the flashlight, what I try to avoid - normally. The crypt was used as a "lapidarium".