Day 8-- Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
Villefranche de Rouergue; Najac; Saint-Cirq-Lapopie;
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Villefranche de Rouergue
Like the château in Najac, Villefranche de Rouergue was founded in 1252 by Alphonse de Poitiers, Count of Toulouse and brother of king Saint Louis.
The town presents, on a large scale, the characteristic layout of new towns of the period, a grid of streets with a square in the centre where religious and public life was carried out.
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