Le Barp : boucle des anciens quartiers

Le Barp is located on the route des Grandes Landes linking Bordeaux to Spain. It is crossed by the Itinerary of the King's horse mail network in the 16th century and on the route of the Roman road known as "Camin Roumieu" which designated in patois "the road" linking Bordeaux to Dax. A stopover on the road to Santiago de Compostela since the 11th century, the village developed around the Relais Hospitalier and the Priory. It is an important post office on the Spanish road which crosses the parish from north to south: it is the fourth station of the horse post after Gradignan. The commune has interesting and typical heritage elements of the Haute Lande Girondine such as barns ? the Landes barn located in the village of Peilhe, a sheep pen in Barat-Neou, a tradition of ceramics with the Grés de Gascogne in the Haureuils district.