Less than ten kilometres from Pau, this village of nearly 2,000 inhabitants is located on a fairly marshy area, on the edge of the bed of the Gave de Pau. This is why it is called "saligue" in Béarnais, meaning typical vegetation of this habitat! As on all the territory of Assat, this important alluvial and fertile plain is favourable to market gardening. Mentioned as early as 980, Assat is an ancient bastide which would have been born towards the end of the 13th century. The town has a rich civil heritage including the castle of Durfort, built in the 12th century and whose keep dates from the 14th century a suspension bridge launched in 1938 and restored in 2005, a town hall built in 1925 in Art Deco style, the work of architect Barrès, and a war memorial erected around 1923, with a statue of Ernest Gabard, La Ferveur: it represents a woman standing, painful, in the dress of widows Béarnaises. Two architectures mark Assat, one with curved, sinuous streets and pebble walls in the old part, well preserved, and the other straight around the Place des Platanes, a small bastide district. The houses follow the traditional architectural plan of the Béarn buildings of the plain of Nay. Its church, Saint-Sévère, built in Arudy limestone in 1873, is decorated with elaborate sculptures, notably on its tympanum (Coronation of the Virgin). Numerous hikes are possible on the banks of the river Gave, the hillsides and the famous Henri IV path.

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