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Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Bastides in the Southwest of France

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Annie Sargent

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of the podcast Annie Sargent and Elyse Rivin talk about bastides in the southwest of France. What do tour guides mean when they tell you that a place is a Bastide? Why is that important? There are a lot of bastides in the southwest of France. For this episode we use the example of Castelnau de Montmiral a charming village in the Tarn. But bastides were a small revolution at the heart of the Middle Ages and Elyse will explain that they sprung up #joinusinfrance #podcast

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0:00.0

This is

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Bonsi Sargent and join us in France is the podcast where we look around France and leave no stone unturned.

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Today I bring you a conversation. around France and leave no stone unturned.

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Today I bring you a conversation with my friend Elise,

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who is a licensed tour guide, by the way,

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I don't think I've mentioned that in a long time,

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and we talk about the Bastid in the southwest of France. As an

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example of a Bastid we talk about Castelno de Monmyral in Occitani. What do tour

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guides mean when they tell you that a place is a Bastille? Why is that important?

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Stay tuned. I bet you learn a lot.

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If you like what we do here at Join us in France, consider supporting us by going to

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patreon.com forward slash join us and by visiting join us in France.com for slash boutique to check out my cookbook join us at the table and my

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Paris tours follow addicted to France on Instagram to see my photos of

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Castel nou de Monmyrel. I'll post them this week. And the best way to stay in touch with me

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and with the podcast is to sign up for the newsletter at join us in France.com

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forward slash newsletter. the Bonjour Elise!

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I am so excited to talk to you today about Le Bastid.

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And as our example for a typical Bastille, we picked this lovely little

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lovely little place in the Tarn called Castell no de Monmyral. Castell no de Murmigal.

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Castil no de Murral.

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Yes, indeed, it's a mouthful, isn't it, Annie?

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It is.

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