Between Valence-sur-Baïse and Condom you will sail past beautiful rolling landscapes and historical places: castles and fortified villages.
All along the medieval centuries ecclesiastical and feudal alliances resulted in building quite interesting monuments and villages in the Baïse valley. You will enjoy visiting the wonderful bastide of Valence-sur-Baïse, founded in the Xlllth century, as well as Vianne. Here was the foremost place for glassmaking and there is still a glass blower whose workshop is worth a visit.
On the bank of the Baïse, the superb Cistercian Abbey of Flaran deserves a stopoff, as well as the local cuisine which gastronomes will enjoy. Then Condom, its cellars and its traditional production of Armagnac that connoisseurs consider as the best of all brandies, Lectoure, a town of Art and History, Vic Fezensac, so fond of bulls and horses with famous Summer festivals.
It is the birthplace of some well known characters too. D'Artagnan, born Charles de Batz de Castelmore, in Lupiac, a famous Musketeer, was immortalized by Alexandre Dumas.
Arriving in Buzet you will immediately be taken to the renowned cellars of that very famous wine AOC. In that land of sunshine, historic memories will attract the traveller to Nérac. Here the impetuous Henri of Navarre (Henri the Fourth) spent his boyhood in the family château des Albret.
Do not forget, you will never be able to leave before you have tasted the rich cooking of Gascony.