Sunflowers & Abbeys

Gascony - the quiet side of south-west France

  • self-guided hotel-to-hotel walking, luggage transported
  • uncrowded, unspoiled and authentic rural France
  • region rich in culture and history
  • timeless countryside
  • delicious cuisine

Alluring landscapes, gentle yet scenic walking routes, plenty of time for cultural visits, a regional cuisine often featuring truffles and duck, welcoming small hotels, a benevolent climate…here you have all the ingredients for a wonderful, and very relaxing, walking holiday. Indeed, given the leisurely nature of the walking, the easy access from Toulouse and the warm hospitality of the hoteliers, this makes an ideal first walk, rewarding you with a real sense of fulfilment at having explored one of France’s last remaining ‘secrets’.

This makes an ideal first walking holiday, rewarding you with a real sense of fulfilment at having explored one of France's last remaining secrets.
     

Discover a landscape of varying hues of green and yellow – from the golden cornfields and expanses of sunflowers whose heads bob gently in the warm breeze, to rolling pastureland punctuated with small copses – as well as cultural treasures such as the delightful towns of Condom and Lectoure, the abbey at Flaran and the collegial church at La Romieu.
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