Village d’Aubiet

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The village takes its name from ‘albinellum’, a place covered with plants with white leaves or flowers.

The last castral town in the Armagnac region, it has a town charter dating back to 1288. It was occupied as early as the Gallo-Roman period (1st to 4th centuries). The ‘togatus’ headless marble bust, located near the cemetery, was discovered during this period.

One of the village’s outstanding features is a bronze bell known as ‘La Sourde’. It is listed as a Historic Monument and certainly dates from the 15th-16th century, although it is not signed. It was probably named after a thunderbolt that altered its sound. Charlemagne is said to have ordered the bell to be cast and to have sounded the crusades. This legend may have saved ‘La Sourde’ from being recast during the revolutionary period. For a long time, it was an object of veneration for the local population. The letters are very beautiful lower case Gothic. The foundryman in Aubiet had some very fine dies, but he was short of them. He therefore used the letter B to replace the V, T, U and H that he lacked. Like many of his colleagues, he was missing the letters M and N. He formed them with I’s placed side by side. This bell, known as ‘La Sourde’, is also admirable, with its bas-relief of the Virgin and Child repeated twice.

Today, Aubiet is one of the tourist attractions of the Coteaux Arrats Gimone region, thanks to its recently renovated square, its church, its village centre, its new-style public garden ‘La Nourrice’ and its hiking trails.

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