Cambieure
Cambieure is a circulade village.
In the Languedoc-Roussillon region of the south of France, a circulade is a traditional village that has been built in (concentric) circles, whereas a Bastide has a square formation.
The centre is empty, more often than not, rather than having a church or other important building. Circulade plans were identified as a unique urbanistic phenomenon about 1992, are medieval in origin, dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries which is two centuries earlier than the planned bastides of the region.
Krzysztof Pawlowski, a Polish architect working for the UNESCO patrimony section, first studied this phenomenon. He identified more than fifty circular cities and villages of Languedoc-Roussillon, the birthplace of this concept at the rebirth of European town planning.
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