Fortified village of Baixas

En un regard

Le château en bref

Baixas (Baixàs), in the Roussillon plain between the Agly and the Têt, some ten kilometres from Perpignan, has preserved an almost intact fortified village complex. The oldest core is a small enclosure of about 70 m in diameter, set on a mound around the church, which may correspond to the sagrera, the fortified sacred space attested from the 11th century. From the 13th century, a second enclosure developed to the west, in the lower part: a seven-sided plan of roughly 250 m from north to south and 130 m from east to west, laid out around two main streets that cross at a central square, and a peripheral street running alongside the ramparts. The estate belonged to the cathedral chapter of Elne, which remained its lord until the Revolution.