Pujols is perched high on a hill overlooking Villeneuve-sur-Lot, and almost too picturesque to be true. Not strictly a bastide,
though built with all its characteristics; originally a Celtic town, then Roman under the name of Podium, Pujols was destroyed during the Albigensian Crusade (it had made the mistake of belonging to the heretics) and rebuilt with its original stones. There was a 14th-century castle, too, very like Carcassonne in style, but the Town Council sold it in 1880 and it was dismantled and the stone used to build a prison. 1800 francs they got for it, apparently.