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Larressingle · 50 min
Larressingle (town)
Year roundTwo hundred-odd people live inside a complete 13th-century circuit of walls, moat and drawbridge — built not by a warlord but by the abbots of Condom as their own fortified residence, which is why the keep sits where a church normally would. Everyone calls it the smallest fortified village in France; the official line is one of the smallest, and the difference is the honest one. Fifteen minutes to walk, and more craft shops than houses.
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