The Bastide Les Brégues d'Or is a historic

bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the f ...

in Luynes, a village near

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

, France.

Location

It is located on the chemin de la Carrière in Luynes, near Aix-en-Provence, in south-east France.

History

The bastide was built in the second half of the 18th century.

Architectural significance

It has been listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture since 1989.

References

Houses completed in the 18th century Monuments historiques of Aix-en-Provence 18th-century architecture in France {{France-struct-stub