Bazas Médiévale

Bazas is a city admirably fortified by nature and needed only a few works of art to be impregnable. The Roman presence is a given. A house was not built there without finding in the foundations bricks, coins, shards of vases or other objects from this remote period. Bazas was thus characterized as a Gallic oppidum, the famous Cossio, which became the capital of the City of Vasates in the 4th century. The town was built on a rocky promontory that juts out between two deep valleys. Of natural appearance and triangular shape, this promontory was narrowed at its base, where a cut had been dug, and protected on both sides by steep slopes, one descending southward to the stream Beuve, which flows at the bottom of the valley, and the other northward to one of its tributaries.