ROUTE DES GRANDS SITES OCCITANIE DANS LE GERS

Lovers of slowtourism and long rides in electric cars can rest assured that there are charging stations along your route. So you can continue to discover our beloved department with complete peace of mind. AUCH Former capital of Gascony and Grand Site Occitanie - Sainte-Marie Cathedral (XVth-XVIIth centuries) classified as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, prestigious furniture : stalls, stained glass windows, entombment, great organs - Monumental staircase with 370 steps with the statue of d'Artagnan - Tower of Armagnac from the 14th century - Historic quarter with its pousterles (narrow streets, listed houses) - Archbishop's palace today prefecture of the 18th) - Town Hall (18th) with small Italian-style theatre - Jacobins Museum. Electric charging station available in the town. Nearby: picturesque villages of Castelnau-Barbarens, Montaut-les-Créneaux, Pessan, Preignan. Castles of Montégut and Rieutort (private). VALENCE-SUR-BAÏSE Grand Site Occitanie under the title "Armagnac Abbaye et Cités 13th century perched bastide, of which the ramparts and a gateway known as the Hedgehog or Spanish Gate remain - 14th century church flanked by two towers - Numerous wells - River port area - 12th century Cistercian Abbey of Flaran: Departmental heritage centre, jewels of Cistercian art and exhibition of the Masters of European Art from the 16th to the 20th centuries (works by Monet, Courbet, Rodin ...) Electric charging station available in the town. LARRESSINGLE Grand Site Occitanie under the title "Armagnac Abbaye et Cités The smallest fortified village in France dating from the 13th century - Ramparts and former castle, summer residence of the Bishops of Condom - City of war machines. CONDOM Grand Site Occitanie under the title "Armagnac Abbaye et Cités Commercial capital of Armagnac - City of seven churches - Saint Peter's Cathedral from the 16th century - Flamboyant Gothic cloister - Chapel and episcopal palace (sub-prefecture) - Numerous private mansions from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries - Armagnac Museum - Armagnac cellars - River port Electric charging station available in the town. AUCH BARRAN Bastide - Stage on the road to Santiago de Compostela - Remains of the old enclosure and ditches as well as a beautiful fortified gate - Helical bell tower of a rare type. L'ISLE-DE-NOÉ Village situated at the confluence of the two Baïses (the large and the small) which owes its name to the fact that the two rivers, on the point of joining, enclose it as if in a sort of island. Castle of the 8th century. MONTESQUIOU Castelnau: 13th century tower gate, the church of Saint Martin still has its massive 13th century bell tower but it was completely redesigned from the 15th to the 19th century - Choir with a beautiful flamboyant Gothic vault. Electric charging station available in the village. BASSOUES 13th century bastide founded on an ancient druidic site: square square, well and 16th century half-timbered houses. The square square still has a well and a row of half-timbered houses as well as the market hall dating from the 16th century. Donjon built in 1369, masterpieces of the military art of the late Middle Ages. BEAUMARCHÈS Royal bastide founded in 1290: beautiful 14th century church, one of the few churches in the Gers to have preserved its original stone vault and an extraordinary bell tower-porch. PLAISANCE Town with two bastides - Square corner tower - Remains of the ramparts - Neo-Gothic church built in the 19th century with an organ of 43 stops - 18th and 19th century bourgeois houses. Electric charging station available in the village. MARCIAC Great Occitania Site Royal bastide, founded at the very end of the 13th century. Vast square (the largest in the Midi-Pyrénées) lined with arcades - 14th century church. Famous for its jazz festival (first half of August). Electric charging station available in the town. FOR THE RETURN TO AUCH First suggestion : 53 km At the exit of Marciac, direction Plaisance, turn right on the D943 to Bassoues via Saint-Christaud (stage). Second suggestion : 48 km Take direction Mirande D3 to Tillac (stage) then D16 to join the N21. Mirande (stage) - N21 direction Auch.