tarn-et-garonne

COUNTRY Of THE SOFT ADVENTURE
Tarn-et-Garonne is a rich department with a diversity which, with along the time, forged its identity. Quercy, Gascogne, Languedoc, the Albigensian and Rouergue are found here within only one and even family, fed with tolerance and the values of the reception. Equipped with an exceptional tourist inheritance and a re-elected gastronomy, rocked by a soft and shone upon climate, Tarn-et-Garonne wanted to develop with enthusiasm and dynamism its country holidays. With its natural richness, its varied landscapes, its cultural tourist inheritance, its traditions, its modernity and its gastronomical richness, our department offers the guarantee of holidays of quality. You will find here the wellbeing, balance, know-how and the good manners. Leave to discover the soils of the Country the Soft Adventure.

IMPOSSIBLE TO CIRCUMVENT SITES
The Fortified towns
The Fortified towns are the witnesses of the new urban development in the South-west of France during the Middle Age Because of their number and their characteristics. TheFortified towns are considered by the specialists in the history and the town planning as the most original formula. The regularity of the plan, the presence of a market or a “covered” place are the most current architectural characteristics. But they did not know, because the creation of the country house must be preceded by the signature of a feudal treaty (paréage)which one regards as a "Charter of Foundation" which defines the rights and duties of the inhabitants of the new city. After Montauban, founded in 1144, that one regards as the prototype of theFortified towns, Tarn-rt-Garonne saw the birth of numerous cities which knew to perpetuate nine centuries of art and history. Among the most remarkable let us quote: Beaumont de Gomagne (1276), Réalville (1304), Montjoi (1268) and Castelsagrat (1269).

The WAY OF SAINT-JACOB DE-COMPOSTELLE
On the steps of the adventurers of the Middle Age
the path of great excursion G.R. 65 crosses the department of Lauzerte, Moissac and Auvillar,that it is the first European cultural route. Since 1998, the Ways of Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle in France were registered by UNESCO on the list of the world inheritance. The abbey and the cloister of Moissac is reproduced on this list as one of the stakes on the roads which were taken by the pilgrims coming from all Europe. Other ways - G.R. 36, 46 and G.R of the country – that make it possible to make the Tour of the gorges of Aveyron. There are also hundreds of kilometers of routes of walk and small excursion; get information at the office of Tourism and the Tourist offices.

RIVER TOURISM
The adventure on 8 km/h
There exist several manners of discovering navigation on the channel of the Two Seas and Tarn. Walks in the barge or water-bus are proposed at the ports of Malause, Moissac and Montech. One can rent a livable boat and make a stopover in the ports and nautical halts of Castelsarrasin, Malause, Moissac, Montech, Grisolles and Valence-d’ Agen. The port of Montauban will be soon accessible then Montech. Lastly, in Moissac, Montauban and Saint Nicolas de la Grave one can hire the boats of promenande.

SPORTING LEISURES
The horse, the sailing and the sailboard, the bicycle touring, the golf and parachuting appear among the numerous sports activities which one can practise in Tarn-et-Garonne. In the gorges of Aveyron, it is the kingdom of the canoeingand the VTT; many ways are equipped for the climbing of the caves for speleology. Each area of the department proposes swimming pools, water stretchs and bases of leisures with supervised bathe. During the summer, it is the preferred place of the children and the young people.
Fishing
1362 km of rivers of second category, 112 km of brooks of first category and the lakes where the fishing of enormous carps constitutes the fishfarming inheritance of the department.
Rugby and game of bowls
Department of South-west, Tarn-et-Garonne perpetuates the traditions. Among those two sports are present: Rugby and game of bowls. For the first, do not hesitate to mix yourself with the impassioned ones the day of a match in Montauban or in Valence d’ Agen. With regard to the second, each district, each village has its accustomed who point or who shoot in the shade of the plane trees.

THE WALKS, WINDOWS OF THE SOIL
Windows of the soil, the farm markets are a delight for the eyes. You will find there the colors and the odors of the country, but also a richness of the tradition; listen to it singing, it is the occitan language. The weekly markets of Caussade, on Monday, of Montauban,on saturday, and of Valence d’Agen, onTuesday, are the most famous. During the season of production, go to the market of the fruits of Moissac, the market of garlic of Beaumont, the market with boletus of Vaïssac and the market of sweet chestnuts of Laguépie. And, from November to March, it is the period of the markets of gras in Beaumont de Lomagne, Castelsarrasin, Caussade, Montauban, Valence-d’ Agen and Monclar de Quercy. From December to the end of March, do not miss the market oftruffles and the saffron of Caussade on Monday morning.