Bâgé-la-Ville

Bâgé-le-Châtel rises above the Bresse plain, its circular streets following the outline of a fortified town. It was the seat of the lords of Bâgé and an early capital of Bresse. In 1272 Sybille de Bâgé, heiress to the lordship, married Amadeus of Savoy, bringing Bâgé and Bresse into his family's lands. A seventeenth-century hospital and fragments of walls and brick towers recall the town's later life within the old defences.