Picture credits
Other people’s photographs
Every photograph of the house, the land and the family is ours. The abbeys, the bastides, the market halls and the vineyards were photographed by other people and appear here under licence.
Most are Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike: the photographer is named, the licence is linked, and our cropped versions are offered under the same terms. If one of these is yours and you would rather it were not here, say so and it comes down.

Market stalls with red and white awnings set out along the front of the Gothic cathedral at Condom
Photo: Fod · CC BY 2.5 DK
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Wide panorama of rolling Gers farmland, hedgerows and copses folding away to a hazy horizon
Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The cloister at Moissac, two galleries meeting at a corner, double colonnades with carved capitals
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The carved Romanesque south portal at Moissac, Christ in Majesty on the tympanum above the doorway
Photo: Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Rows of trained vines in spring leaf running away to a treeline under a blue sky
Photo: Sebleouf · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Two hot air balloons landing in a grass field at dusk near Saint Clar
Photo: Traumrune · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The timber market hall at Saint Clar seen through a stone arcade arch across the square
Photo: Morburre · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Looking up into the medieval oak roof of the market hall at Beaumont-de-Lomagne, a web of beams on tall timber posts
Photo: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The circular market hall at Auvillar, a ring of stone columns under a conical tiled roof
Photo: Calips · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The collegiate church at La Romieu, its square belfry and octagonal tower rising above the village rooftops
Photo: MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 3.0
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A carved stone cat stretched out on a corbel on a limestone house wall at La Romieu
Photo: René Hourdry · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Renaissance stained glass at Auch cathedral, standing figures in scarlet, blue and green with gold haloes
Photographer waived attribution · CC0
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The village and château of Lavardens crowning a ridge above ploughed and green fields
Photo: Jcb-caz-11 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Romanesque cloister gallery at Flaran, paired columns and rounded arches beside a lawn
Photo: Jcb-caz-11 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The fortified curtain wall and ruined keep of Larressingle seen from outside the enceinte
Photo: MathieuMD · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The square stone gate tower at Sarrant with its pyramidal tiled roof and small timber bell turret
Photo: Asabengurtza · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Gallo-Roman floor mosaic at Séviac, interlaced scroll and lozenge motifs in white, grey and ochre tesserae
Photo: Benjamin Bellamy · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The gilded baroque interior of the church at Lachapelle, altarpiece and painted ceiling
Photo: MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Château de Gramont, its medieval tower abutting the lighter Renaissance wing
Photo: MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sunflower heads filling the frame, one bloom sharp in the foreground, the field soft behind
Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
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