Eauze, the capital of armagnac

The city of Eauze, chief town of canton, count today 4200 inhabitants (Elusates). It is located at the North-West of the department of Gers, at 10 kilometers in the East meridian line of Greenwich, with the crossing of the secondary roads 626 (Saint-Justin, Vic-Fezensac) and 931 (Agen, Manciet).
The western winds bring to it the scents of the drill of pines, arrivals of the very close Landes. The slopes which surround allow to have a wide sight on the snow-covered summits of the Pyrenees in clear weather. Gélise, small river with shaded banks, curves at the foot of the city.
Eauze is the capital of Armagnac because it is located in the middle of the producing area and most famous of this famous and old brandy. Eauze is the seat of the principal administrations concerned with Armagnac

Eauze is an old city, where the vestiges of the past abound. You can distinguish the old city, located at the interior of the old ramparts today transformed into boulevards and whose some vestiges remain, and the modern city, which grows outside. You can note a certain number of remarkable constructions:
* The Saint-Luperc cathedral. It is devoted to Saint Lupercus, evangelist who converts Anatole and Dassin. Built in 1521, by Jean bishop Enough of Condom. This is a Gothic vessel high of 22 m, with single nave, and low vaults between the buttresses, with an octagonal bell-tower. Roman bricks were employed again in the walls. Its high bays have stained glasses of the XVIIth century. The building shelters an organ of platform (Daublaine-Callinet, 1842) with dresser neogothic. The archbishop of Auch François Augustin Delamare makes the church again a cathedral in 1865.
* A whole whole of old half-timbered houses, which the house of Jeanne d' Albret of the end of XVth century with wood pillars and carved beams.
* Vestiges of the old ramparts with remainders of the still visible ditches, as well as sections of wall of the first enclosure, very close to Gelise.
* The castle of the imperial water, first castle of the modern water of France, built on the orders of Napoleon III.
* The very beautiful archaeological museum of Eauze, where is exposed an important Roman treasure found on October 18, 1985 close to the old station, in the district known as of “Cieutat” (the City). It includes 28.003 coins, of which some out of gold and money, of the jewels and the invaluable objects. The objects and documents presented evoke the life of the inhabitants of the antique Elusa (Eauze), which was the capital of the Roman province of Novempopulanie.
* The arenas Nimeño II, of 4000 places, where remains the Gascon tradition taurine.

It was updated on October 18, 1985, at the time d' an excavation on a ground very close to the station. At last century Roman steles, and more recently, furnaces of Roman potters gallo- had already been discovered. These elements attest an intense regional activity on behalf of the Romans, materializing the importance of Elusa, capital of Novempopulanie. The treasure, found in a circular pit, is composed approximately 28.000 alloy copper-money currencies, six gold currencies, and 45 copper coins of which a medallion of Marc-Aurèle. It counts moreover gold jewels, two knives with the handle of the carved ivory, of the pins in horn, a key of bronze box, three silver ingots, like seven spoons of the same metal. These obhets covers approximately a period which goes from 170 to 261 after J. - C. the treasure of Eauze is presented in the archaeological museum, places republic.