NEW
NEW
A small house for 6 people, a few meters from the main building, is currently being renovated in the same spirit as the first. It will be offered for rental for the summer of 2025. Details of the property as a whole, which can now accommodate up to 19 people, can be found on the website.
ACCESS
Address
288 Maux, Touffailles, France
Car park
Up to 5 vehicles can be parked at the gîte.
Railway stations (TER and Intercités)
27 km - Moissac
30 km - Valence d'Agen
35 km - Castelsarrasin
TGV stations (Paris-Bordeaux-Toulouse line)
42 km - Agen
48 km - Montauban Ville Bourbon
100 km - Toulouse Matabiau
Airports
48 km - Agen La Garennne
101 km - Toulouse Blagnac
187 km - Bordeaux
Highways
Castelsarrasin - A62
Agen - A62
Montauban - A20
Toulouse - A61, A62, A64, A66, A68
SURROUNDINGS
The house is in the Touffailles commune, the village centre is 2.9 km away. There is a bakery (and grocery shop) with excellent viennoiseries, and a post office.
Lauzerte, a hilltop village in the Quercy Blanc region, was founded in the 12th century and is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages, as well as being a stopover for pilgrims on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This bastide is only 9 km from the house, and has everything you need for your stay (pharmacy, supermarket, petrol station, tobacconist & newsagent, restaurants, cafés and local craft shops). There's a great seasonal programme, with weekly concerts in the village main square.
Other charming villages in the vicinity include Montcuq, also on the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago de Compostela; Roquecor, perched on a rocky outcrop at an altitude of 220 metres, overlooking the Petite Séoune valley; or Penne d'Agenais, a craggy medieval village in the Lot-et-Garonne region, with numerous arts and crafts workshops and galleries open to the public. Penne d'Agenais is dominated by the sanctuary of Peyragude, from which there is a magnificent panoramic view over the Lot Valley, the port of Penne and the Pays de Serre.
There's a festive programme during the summer months - concerts, markets, exhibitions and much more - and I'll keep you informed of events scheduled during your stay.
All my good local addresses are compiled in a booklet available in the accommodation. In any case, I'll be happy to make suggestions according to your wishes.
Quercy Blanc is a region rich in history, full of sunshine, which will offer you a warm welcome and local produce that's full of flavour. The local specialities are numerous: melon, lavender, Chasselas grapes, Quercy walnuts, truffles, Agen prunes, Reine-Claude plums and many more. Local craftsmen and farmers are also extending their know-how to other products such as saffron, black garlic or violets. Especially because the region benefits so much from Flemish and English culture.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HOUSE
Maux is an old farmhouse or hamlet house in Quercy. Until the middle of the twentieth century, it consisted of several farm buildings surrounding dwellings, a communal oven and a chapel.
Little story : a lady, retired in the region, came to the house one day. She used to come every summer, in the 1940s, when she was a teenager to visit her cousins who lived in Maux. She came to press the grape harvests. She told us that at the time, the living quarters were only where the kitchen and adjoining bedroom are now. The rest of the house was used to store livestock on the ground floor, and hay upstairs. She still attended mass in the chapel on the property.
The property was remodelled and restored in the 1980s. Some of the original buildings and paths have disappeared. The chapel building still exists, next to the swimming pool. The original oven can be seen from one of the gîte terraces, although it is no longer in use.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE COTTAGE
In 2019, myself, your host Juliette, inherited this house from my mum when I was twenty. There were two short years when I didn't know how to regard this place, an opportunity or a burden to care for. I spent many long months of Covid confinement and beautiful seasons there, enjoying everything the house had to offer. In 2021, I began renovating and transforming it into a gîte. With my passion for design, interior design, ceramics and other crafts, I had a lot of pleasure working on the house. Mostly I've been tinkering with things, reworking the existing furniture and finding lots of things in flea-market to bring the house up to date, while keeping its rustic character and honouring the noble materials it's made of - stone, wood and wrought iron. I now rent it out during the summer months and hope to have other projects for this house or elsewhere in the future. I love to welcome you and make you feel pampered. Because it's your holiday, it can only be a relaxing time for you, so I try to make sure of that.