Gers: what to see and do
22 sites listed in the département. Heart of Gascony, the Gers cultivates a way of life around its medieval bastides, its Armagnac and its rolling hills as far as the eye can see. Auch and its cathedral, along with the fortified villages, embody the gentle Gascon way of life.
La Romieu
Discover the village of La Romieu, at the crossroads of the Ways of Saint James of Compostela, its collegiate church of Saint-Pierre listed as UNESCO World Heritage, its gardens.
Abbaye de Flaran
Château de Castelmore
Château de Caumont
Château de Lavardens
Château de Plieux
Château de Sainte-Mère
Château du Tauzia
ELUSA Capitale antique
Fourcès
Located in the Auzoue valley, the village was first built around a castle with a wooden keep.
La Halte du Pèlerin
Larressingle
The village of Larressingle lies west of Condom on the line of plateaus that separates the Osse and Baïse valleys.
Lavardens
Set at the top of a rocky spur, in the heart of Gascony, the village of Lavardens is built around its feudal castle and church.
Montréal
In 1255 Alphonse of Poitiers built on a rocky spur skirted by the Auzoue one of the first Gascon bastides.
Musée d'Artagnan
Palmeraie du Sarthou
Parc de loisirs de Gondrin
Sarrant
Separated from the sober chapel of Notre-Dame de la Pitié and its cemetery by a wide boulevard shaded by plane trees, the village has as its main entrance a fourteenth-century vaulted gate pierced in a massive square tower, witness of the old walls protecting Sarrant.
Tour de Termes-d'Armagnac
Vélorail de l'Armagnac
On a rehabilitated century-old railway, climb aboard a revisited "pedalo" and set off to discover the rolling Gers landscapes.
Auch
