Inheritance
NAVARENX
France's first bastioned town, a century before Vauban, Navarrenx boasts 10-metre-high ramparts listed as a Historic Monument, along with military structures that bear witness to its rich history: bastions, demilunes, fortified gates and watchtowers.
Listed among France's "most beautiful villages", it welcomes around 12,000 pilgrims annually as a stop on the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela.
Sauveterre de Béarn
Sauveterre is a "Sauveté Castrale" - a fortified sanctuary. From its 11th-century origins, the town has been a place of refuge, welcoming and protecting its population under the direct safeguard of the viscount.
From its rich military past emerged numerous monuments - impressive not only for their defensive architecture but also as treasures of fascinating stories and legends
