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The upper city, the current district Saint-cross, owes its birth to the viscount of Bearn, who chooses this place to implant its city. The fortifications were raised and provided with defensive elements, at the request of viscount Gaston Fébus. Near, the suburb Saint-Peter developed from 1287. The traders quickly settled down there, their houses surround the central place. A Gothic church dedicated in Saint-Peter was built there before being shaved in 1569 and rebuilt in the XVIIIth century.

The district Saint-Mary developed without discontinuity from the Middle Ages until today. The medieval village was delimited by ditches surmounted by wooden fences and had got two strengthened entrances in the axis of the main street. In the XVIIIth century, three bishops from the same family, the Révol, take care of the religious life of their diocese by favoring the education and by emphasizing the religious buildings. They reconstructed in particular the episcopal palace, enlarged the cathedral and created a seminary and an orphanage for the girls.

The district Notre-Dame dates the XVth century. He owes his origin to the existence of an important market in front of the church Saint-cross and around the castle. The Marcadet place, triangular shape, groups together notables and rich middle-class persons’ houses thanks to the business. In 1753, on order of the bursar Mégret of Etigny, the new road towards the city of Pau modifies the aspect of the place, while in 1869, three houses are demolished to leave place with the construction of the church Notre-Dame.