Lévignac, une grande randonnée en Guyenne
In toponymy, Lévignac, a former English bastide town of which there are few remains, means the land of the vine. The commune has seen this production gradually disappear in favour of the plum orchards of Ente.
Its slender bell tower is a landmark for all the surroundings. Lévignac-de-Guyenne dominates the Dropt valley, about twenty kilometres north of Marmande. This ancient English bastide, founded in 1305, bears a name that would testify to the presence of vines, a credible assertion due to its proximity to the vineyards of Bordeaux and the Côtes de Duras. Nowadays, the hillsides are mostly covered with plum orchards, large woods, such as the one at Chavaneau, and cereal crops, which are crossed by the route. The bastide of Lévignac, or new town, has an ovoid shape with a central square. The present-day habitat bears witness to the different historical stages, with the 14th-century remnant houses, the farms dating from the Ancien Régime, the 19th-century bourgeois houses and the contemporary constructions.
