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Aire-sur-l'Adour : Former bishopric and town hall

Landes

Reference

PA40000090

Latitude

43.699992

Longitude

-0.262

Address

3 Rue Gambetta 40800 Aire-sur-l'Adour

Construction era

17e siècle

Protection date

2015/05/11 : inscrit MH

Protection cause

L'ancien évêché hôtel de ville en totalité, avec l'ensemble de ses bâtiments et ses deux cours (cad. CC 220) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mai 2015

A first episcopal palace was erected in the 12th century. He was destroyed by the Huguenots in 1569, then rebuilt from 1627 by Bishop Gilles Boutault and his successor. The plans established in the 18th century reveal a vast area with many outbuildings and gardens extending to the Adour.