Puycasquier has the characteristics of a rural village on the edge of the Lomagne: houses often old fashioned with the country’s materials aligned, according to the regular plan of the bastide that it was originally, around its bell tower and its hall... The origin of the name of the municipality is Podium Asterii: Astier height. You can discover the heritage in the village and its surroundings: * In the village: the bell tower, whose base is the old watchtower of the thirteenth century, the porch of the church, the baptismal basin of the twelfth century, the hall (sixteenth century, modified in 1924), the district of Embans with its sixteenth century houses, the «breach of the English», which overlooks the round path, offering a magnificent panorama of the Auroue valley and the Pyrenees. * Outside: the Notre Dame de Gaillan chapel, built on the Gallo-Roman site of the old village, has been a place of pilgrimage since the 16th century.

Address
32120 Puycasquier, Gers, Occitanie, France