| The Region
The area offers rolling countryside, ideal for cycling and walking
straight from your door. There is a succession of wooded river valleys,
vineyards, fields of sunflowers or maize, and quiet villages and market
towns.
There are some world-class restaurants within an
hour's
drive, and other excellent places to eat even nearer.
The
Bordeaux vineyards are within an easy drive, while more locally you can
visit producteurs of Madiran, Pacherenc and Cotes de Gascogne, and of
course Armagnac.
The peaceful abbey at Flarans
is well worth a visit and has art exhibitions which are often superb. There are
fortified castles at Rochtaillade, and Pau; a delightful fortified
village at Larresingle, and various local chateaux. There are
other special museums to visit including the delightful EcoMusee
at
Sabres, which is a ‘living’ museum with real
animals and
displays of local crafts, showing how life was on Landais farms in the
last century and which you reach on a narrow-gauge railway –
no
cars are allowed.
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