Town of Entre-deux-Mers, Bassens takes place in the department of Gironde, on the right bank of the Garonne. Member of the urban area of Bordeaux, the city is located a few kilometers from Artigues-près-Bordeaux Lormont and Saint-Loubès.
Inhabited since prehistoric times, the site that now houses City Bassens was influenced Bordeaux since Antiquity. Long holiday resort nobles, bourgeois and other Bordeaux merchants, the town still has some beautiful homes that show the time. Today Bassens houses some elements of the port of Bordeaux and especially attracts tourists eager to learn more about the history of the region.
Vibrant and dynamic, the city offers a wide range of leisure and other cultural entertainment and an architectural heritage that lacks neither interest nor charm. The proximity to the surrounding vineyards also delight fans of great wines.
To admire the sights abound in the municipality of Bassens, and several of them were enrolled in the general inventory of cultural heritage.
On Liberation Square proudly stands the Church of St. Peter. It takes place at one of the highest points of the city and has elements from several different eras. Its construction and spread the eleventh to the nineteenth century. Its bell tower of the twelfth century was listed as an historic monument.
Set of buildings the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the castle of Beauval is one of the most beautiful monuments Bassens. It consists today of a house and a chapel. private castle, it dates back to the origin of the fifteenth century. Another exceptional building, the Pomerol castle also dates from the nineteenth century. It serves retirement home today to the city.
Some old farms draw the eye to Bassens, reflecting the agricultural town of the past. and particular note of the farm Bousquet, that of Barry closed the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, or the Boles farmstead nineteenth century.
Former holiday resort of the great personalities of Bordeaux, the city of Bassens retained several town houses and others a little masters mansions around the old center. The Bellerive-Les Moines area, especially, seduces with its polygonal towers of neo-medieval style and crenellations. The castle of the Griffons, or the area Muscadet not lacking either charm.
Walking through the streets of Bassens, visitors will not miss the cricket castle and its medieval-style corner turret, Séguinaud castle and fountain, or the remains of field Meignan. The latter is now a public park, like the castle of Lagarde.
You can see the wind Beauval which dates from the nineteenth century.
Bassens is a member of Green over Coteaux center and is integrated with the green loop of Bordeaux. A bicycle-heritage route also runs through the town.
Bassens The market takes place every Sunday morning. The city also offers a Christmas market.
Bubbles Festival in Hauts-de-Garonne, dedicated to comics, is organized every year in March on a different theme. The opportunity to discover many authors and attend meetings.
multidisciplinary festival in June offers Hop musical naps, guided tours or exhibitions of all kinds.
In July, the city offers its festival of Hauts-de-Garonne area of Beauval. Branded Summer scene, it offers concerts by artists from around the world.
Sulfurock is a free festival of contemporary music that takes place every year in September.
