Population - 172,000   (1,067,000)

Area - 6,291 km²   (1,663)

Population density - 27   (642)

(comparative figs - Surrey UK)

Towns with over 3,000 people

Auch   21,838
Condom   7,251
Eauze   3,881
Fleurance   6,273
L'Isle-Jourdain   5,560
Lectoure   3,933
Mirande   3,568
Vic-Fezensac   3,614

Main town

Auch

635 miles - 10 hours - from Calais

What is it really like for holidays in Gers

Gers is Gascony - below the Garonne above the Pyrenees and east of the Landes

Gers is adjacent to and as gently rolling as the Lot-et-Garonne with its own fortified bastide towns and villages from the 100 year war

Quiet and peaceful musketeer country where Armagnac matures in its own time

Gascony is the beauty of the non dramatic - sleepy peaceful balanced rural tranquillity

Must visit places

Auch

Quiet old cathedral city beside the tree lined river Gers

Fleurance - Lectoure - Condom

All worth visiting as time slowly passes by

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