Welcome to our site about Gascony (Gascogne)! We hope you will appreciate this beautiful part of SW France. Love it so much that you will want to live here. We would be delighted to show you around Gascony and help you buy a Gascony property.

Gascony is an area of southwest France that constituted a province of France prior to the French Revolution. In historic references dating from the beginning of the Roman era, it was part of Gaul and became part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the conquests of Clovis I(–481 AD).

It is currently divided between the Aquitaine région (départements of Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, south and west of Gironde, and south of Lot-et-Garonne) and the Midi-Pyrénées région (départements of Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées, southwest of Tarn-et-Garonne, and west of Haute-Garonne). These areas are very popular for a Gascony property.

Gascony was historically inhabited by Basque-related people and it is home to the Gascon language. It is also the land of d’Artagnan, who inspired Alexandre Dumas’s character in The Three Musketeers. It is also home to the hero of the play Cyrano de Bergerac.

Gascony is also famed for its douceur de vivre (”sweetness of life”): its food (it is home to foie gras and Armagnac brandy), its medieval towns and villages locally called bastides nested amidst green rolling hills, its sunny weather, the beauty of its landscape, with the occasional distant views of the Pyrenees mountain range, all contribute to the popularity of Gascony as a tourist destination. Due to rural exodus, Gascony is one of the least populated areas of western Europe, and so it has recently become a haven for stressed urbanites of northern Europe (chiefly France, England, and the Benelux nations) who, in search of quiet and peace of mind, are increasingly buying second homes in Gascony.

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