Monflanquin

Monflanquin is a hilltop bastide overlooking the Lède valley. Founded by Alphonse of Poitiers in 1256, its regular streets and plots were laid out around a central square, expressing the ordered plan of a new medieval town. During the Wars of Religion it became a prize for armed factions. In 1574 Protestant forces under the lords of Langoiran and Vivans captured the town and took numerous nobles prisoner.