War Memorial, Lectoure

Name: War Memorial
Address: Lectoure, France

#4 among attractions in Lectoure

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Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I. After the end of the 1914–1918 war there was a frenzy to build memorials to commemorate those who had been killed and it has been calculated that in this period well over 36,000 individual memorials were erected throughout France with the majority of these being built between 1919 and 1926. These memorials are known as monuments aux morts - literally monuments to the dead and what are known in the United Kingdom as war memorials. ()

Local name: Monument aux MortsCoordinates: 43°56'1"N, 0°37'37"E

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Lectoure France

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War Memorial – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lectoure Cathedral, Château de Terraube, Château de Sainte-Mère, Château de Lacassagne.

~790 ftW
Church
Lectoure Cathedral, Lectoure
4 min walk • Lectoure Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Lectoure, France. It is a national monument. It was the seat of the former Diocese of Lectoure.
4.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Château de Terraube, Terraube
108 min walk • The Château de Terraube is a 13th-century castle in the commune of Terraube in the Gers département of France. This Gascon castle was built around 1272 for the de Galard family, Merovingian dukes of Gascony; a date on the doorway confirms this. The de Galards have owned the castle ever since.
5.4 miN
Forts and castles
Château de Sainte-Mère
137 min walk • The Château de Sainte-Mère is a 13th-century ruined castle in the commune of Sainte-Mère in the Gers département of France. The castle was built at the time of the Treaty of Amiens by the Bishop of Lectoure, Géraud de Monlezun. It defended the frontier of the English possessions.
3.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Château de Lacassagne
79 min walk • The Château de Lacassagne is a château in the commune of Saint-Avit-Frandat in the Gers département of France. The Château de Lacassagne is thought to date from the latter half of the 15th century, with additions and alterations made in every century until the 19th.
~890 ftSW
Fountain
Fontaine de Diane, Lectoure
5 min walk • The Diane fountain, formerly called Hountélie, sometimes Houndélie, francized as Fontélie, is a fountain located in the southern ramparts of the city of Lectoure.
5.4 miE
Forts and castles
Château de Plieux
137 min walk • The castle of Plieux, built in the XIVth century in Plieux is a castle of "Gascon type".
6.5 miSE
Memorial
War Memorial, Urdens
166 min walk • Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.
4.2 miSW
Memorial
War Memorial, Terraube
107 min walk • Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.
4.4 miW
Locality
Marsolan
113 min walk • Marsolan is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.