Discovering the French Village of 'Pujols', Voted Frances Prettiest Village

‪@MariaAndRichardInFrance‬ ‪@france_unfiltered‬ ‪@Wilsons_World‬ For Lisa's blog Please copy and paste this into your browser substack.com/@ourjourneytohappiness For the MASSIVE 15% Discount on your mandatory 12 month private health insurance, copy and paste this into your browser https://www.fabfrenchinsurance.com/r/... Or e-mail rob@fabfrenchinsurance.com In todays video We visit Frances village of Pujols, voted its prettiest village in the whole of France The town of Pujols was built on an outcrop atop a steep incline, overlooking the Lot and Masse river valleys. The Abbot Gerbeau, relying on the toponym “At the Palace” (Au Palai) in the town cadaster of 1811, claimed that a palace dating to the High Middle Ages once occupied the western extremity of the outcrop. Pujols seems to have been relatively important at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The city walls were razed however during the Albigensian Crusade in 1229.[3] According to the account of the royal steward of Agenais, Villefavreuse, the town seems to have been rebuilt with difficulty and only partially, while the fortified town of Villeneuve grew in the 1250s due to the arrival of Pujolais chased from Pujols. Sometime in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, the village was fortified with large square slabs of stone, though today there remain only the bell tower gate and the gate of the city (known as the English gate). In 1525, Jean de Pujols and his wife established a chapter of cannons, and built Saint Nicholas Church on the northern side of the town. Towards the beginning of the sixteenth century, the rural Saint-Foy Church was rebuilt within the town's fortifications. The houses of the sixteenth century were made with stone in half-timbered style. What You’ll Learn: And we did it with the help of channel 4s popular daytime tv show show 'A Place in the Sun' You can find our episode on channel 4 catchup. AND they have also recorded a follow up show 'Where are they now' to come soon. We bought a 250 year old converted barn.....and then we converted it a little bit more. We moved here post brexit so in our thrice weekly videos we document our daily lives highlighting the highs and lows of moving from England into the EU/France post Brexit. Its not easy but we explain steep by step our journey in moving and retiring to France. With a bit of grit, hard wor 👉 Stay Connected: Follow me on InstagramEscape to France 2024 for additional tips, inspiration, and behind-the-scenes content! Thank you for watching! Let's make your dream of owning a home in France a reality, one step at a time! 💖✨ Oh and did I tell you that we have rescued horses, something that never in our wildest dreams we thought we would do, but one of the horses, Wally, is being attacked by flies, so watch the video to see how we have solved this problem. So that's enough for now. Follow our channel to follow our retirement journey here in the south west of France. You won't be disappointed Laterzzz Filmed with the DJI Pocket Osmo 3