The Entry of the village :
The wall at the twelve sides and the angles very blunt found, since its restoration, its form quasi-circular, original compared to the usual rectangular plan for the fortresses. This erudite layout does not offer any weak point, while the advance of the turns and the overhang of the turns allow to cross the shootings on all the threatened points. The defensive system of Larressingle holds the attention of the specialists. The church with its high tower, the high room with the suction face of the vault which makes of it one second fortress within the first; with its apse in half dome (bored in XIIIe century) and its historiés capitals, joins together in it at the same time the art of warfare and the religious art.
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