The Gers and Armagnac in 4 days

Built from 1489 to 1680, with 18 vivid windows by Arnaut de Moles and 113 carved oak choir stalls holding more than 1,500 figures.

A former Roman town on a spur above the Gers valley; walk from the cathedral to the Bastion promenade, with Pyrenees views on clear days.

A former bishopric on the Baïse and a stop on the way to Compostela, with a Gothic cathedral, a cloister and a musketeers statue.

A tiny fortified village near Condom that fits entirely inside its 13th-century walls, about 270 metres round and fortified by the bishops of Condom.

A rare circular bastide, its round, tree-shaded square ringed by half-timbered houses on arcades, entered through a 13th-century clock tower.

In the self-styled Armagnac capital, a tasting centre for armagnac, Floc de Gascogne and Côtes de Gascogne wines that points you on to local estates.

In a listed chapel in the village of the real d'Artagnan's birth, the museum sets his life as a musketeer against the Dumas novel.

A royal bastide founded in 1298 around the largest square in the Gers, lined with arcades, below the tall spire of Notre-Dame church.