Villeneuve-sur-Lot is a town and commune in the southwestern French department of Lot-et-Garonne. The commune was formerly named Villeneuve-d’Agen. Villeneuve-sur-Lot is located 22 km northeast of the commune of Agen and straddles the river Lot.

Sights

Places and monuments 

Civil heritage 

• The remains of the Roman city of Excisum in Eysses, next to the prison.
• The fortified mill of Gajac
• Its ancient walls, Villeneuve-sur-Lot has kept the door of Paris (formerly door Monflanquin) and the door of Pujols, xiii ^th and xiv ^th  centuries . These are the only vestiges of the ramparts which defended the city. Both, built in stone and brick, are crowned with battlements and machicolations.
• Place de Lafayette, called Place des Cornières
• The Saint-Cyr hospital
• The old town hall
• Villa Gaston Rapin: School of Fine Arts
• Spanning the Lot , the bridge Cieutats or Old Bridge, Contemporary Valentré bridge of Cahors, was the xiii ^th  century topped by three defensive towers. If the two southern arches date back to the xiii ^th  century, the great arch on the side of the right bank was built in the xvii ^th century, following degradation considered irreversible of the previous arches. This new arch was designed to facilitate the flow of current; the main weakness of this work of art, designed by English engineers little to the fact of the water regime of Aquitaine rivers, indeed resided in its massiveness which made it an obstacle that the water pressure has gradually degraded. Legend has it that three boats going down the Lot were stopped at the foot of the old bridge by a mysterious force. 
• The Liberation Bridge
• Bastérou bridge
• The castle Sylvestrie  : xii ^th  -  xiii ^th  centuries
• The Lamothe Castle
• Rogé castle
• The theater Georges Leygues
• The municipal museum, called the Gajac museum , offers collections of local prehistory , Egyptian and Gallo-Roman antiquities , religious art, contemporary drawings and sculptures .
• The stud

Religious buildings 

• The Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais abbey was located in Eysses, rue Victor Michaud on the site of the detention center .
• The Sainte-Catherine church on rue Sainte-Catherine is in the Byzantine Revival style , and offers an unusual north-south orientation. It was built in the early xx ^th  century to replace the old church of the xiii ^th  century, considered too dilapidated. It is home to remarkable stained glass windows of the xiv ^th and xv ^th  centuries (from the old church).
• The church of Saint-Etienne , Saint-Etienne, was built at the birth of the country house in the xiii ^th  century. It was completed in the xvi ^th  century. It is a beautiful late Gothic building of southern type .
• The church of Saint-Sernin d’Eysses , rue Victor Michaud.
• The Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church in Collongues .
• The Saint-Pie X church in Courbiac.
• The Saint-Hilaire church in La Grâce.
• The Sainte-Anne church in Monmarès.
• The Saint-Gernain-l’Auxerrois church in Saint-Germain.
• The Saint-Sulpice church in Saint-Sulpice-Rive-Lot.
• The Sainte-Radegonde church in Sainte-Radegonde.
• The Saint-Pierre church in Soubirous.
• The Saint-Martin church in Petit-Trémons.
• The chapel of the end of the bridge , rue Notre-Dame.
• The chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste des Pénitents blancs , rue de l’Écluse. The brotherhood was founded in 1657. The chapel was blessed in 1667.
• The chapel of the former Saint-Cyr hospital , boulevard Saint-Cyr de Coquard.
• The Notre-Dame chapel of the Annonciade monastery, rue Crochepierre.
• The Notre-Dame-de-Divine-Miséricorde chapel, rue Paul Claudel in the Sainte-Catherine cemetery.
• the Saint-Jean-Marie-Vianney chapel, avenue du Général De Gaulle.
• The chapel of the detention center , rue Victor Michaud.
• The reformed temple, rue du Général Blaniac.
• The Evangelical Protestant Church, rue des Peupliers.
• The Evangelical Assembly of God Church, rue de l’Abbaye.
• The Evangelical Life and Light church, rue Victor Delberge.
• The Kingdom Hall, rue Montplaisir.

Cultural facilities 

First mentioned in 1264 in the founding act of the fortified town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, the mill of Gajac, converted mill in the xix ^th  century, has a history that is intertwined with that of the city as a whole. The Gajac museum occupies the majestic site of an old mill installed by the river , right in the center of Villeneuve-sur-Lot. It houses an important collection of fine arts and organizes many temporary exhibitions.

The municipal library was created in 1860 thanks to the donation of a fund by Lamartine . From 1970, it integrated premises within the city’s cultural center and in 1978, it took the name of Paul-Guth Municipal Library . It will only be leaving its premises temporarily from July 2006 to April 2007 for renovation work which has made it possible to completely reorganize the 547  m ² that the library occupies. The establishment’s fund currently contains more than 50,000 documents. The library actively participates in the organization of the city’s book fair and the Keskili fair, the meeting place for baby readers.

Events

• The Villeneuve-sur-Lot laughter festival has been taking place in late June-early July since 1992 . The laughter festival is an eclectic and quality humorous program. The bastide becomes the capital of laughter and good humor at the beginning of summer.
• The laughter festival offers, every year, a national competition of young comedians (thus went through this competition Christophe Alévèque; Baptiste Lecaplain; Titoff ….).
• The festival offers, in the second part of the competition for young comedians, artists recognized in the one- (wo) man-show (among others, François-Xavier Demaison;); Some artists came as young comedians and then as humor stars (Bruno Salomone; Titoff ….).
• The festival was created in 1992 by the second generation of the Association Saint-Roch Saint-Fiacre (created in 1959) in order to create a new cultural event in Villeneuve-sur-Lot