Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: marché couvert

Cazères is another old bastide town. Notre Dame, the towns recently restaurated parish church, was erected 13th/14th century. The old , woooden market hall that stood next to the church. It got replaced by the very elegant hall, seen to the left, in 1884.

Raymond VII, the Count of Toulouse, who signed the Treaty of Paris (1229), that ended the Albigensian Crusade and the political autonomy of Occitan, founded the town in a loop of the River Arize in 1238 as a bastide. The town still has the typical layout - and a central square right in its center. Here is the market hall and behind Saint-Victor, the parish church.

The market hall in Sens, opened in 1882, is a wonderful example of the 19th century cast-iron architecture. It is a landmark just like the cathedral on the opposite side of the Place de la République.