Residents were granted a houselot, a kitchen garden lot (casale), and a cultivable lot (arpent) on the periphery of the bastide's lands. The bastide hall and the church were often first …

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The meaning of BASTIDE is a village or town in medieval France built especially for defense and usually laid out according to a definite geometric plan.

bastide, type of village or town built largely in the 13th and 14th centuries in England and Gascony and laid out according to a definite geometric plan. It is thought by some to have …

Between the 13th and 14th centuries, more than 300 bastides, or fortified towns, were built in the southwest of France. Today, they can mostly be found in the regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and...

The "Bastide" towns of southwest France are a growing tourist attraction, and comprise one of the largest collections of well-preserved medieval townscapes to be found anywhere in Europe.

Most bastides were built between 1229 and 1373, between the Albigensian Crusade and the Hundred Years' War. Today, there are about 400 bastides. They all have a central square, and …

Definition of 'bastide' bastide in British English (bæsˈtiːd ) noun 1. architecture

The plan of the bastide is an innovative urban form, even if the orthogonal layout of its roads suggests Greek and Gallo-Roman urban forms. A bastide is made up, lengthwise, of 1 to 8 …

What is a Bastide? A Bastide refers to more than just a house—it is rooted in the medieval history of France. Bastides are fortified towns or villages built during the 13th and 14th centuries, …