| SAINT-JEAN-LE VIEUX (DONAZAHARRE in B.) 900 inhabitants (Vétijeannois)
ORPUSTAN recalls that this was the name of his own parish St-Jean
d'Urrutia (the l2th-century latin St-Jean-de-Cize), whose Romanesque
church is now in ruins, and that there were 3 other churches, including
the present-day St-Pierre with its Romanesque portal. Other remains
(including Roman elements, a 13th-century hospital on the Compostella
route, the 12th-cent. St-Blaise chapel), and buildings that are still
presentable bear witness to the glorious past of this town that was
partly destroyed by Richard the Lionheart in 1177. |
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