Bastide de Geaune

The bastide town of Geaune is located in the south of the Landes de Gascogne, in the Tursan region. It was built on the route between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees, Mont-de-Marsan and Pau. Founded in 1318, it takes its name from Gênes (Genoa, Geune in Gascon), the hometown of its founder, seneschal Antonio de Pessagne, vassal of the King-Duke of England, who signed a deed of parage with local lord Pierre de Castelnau.
A typical bastide town, Geaune today retains its regular layout, with 25 islets, a church set back from the center and a central square lined on 3 sides with arcaded houses. Its main monuments are the Languedoc Gothic Saint-Jean-Baptiste church (14th and 15th centuries) and its bell tower (15th century), the Tour des Augustins built in 1401, the Gothic remains of a convent destroyed during the Wars of Religion, and the Tour de Malte.

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