Fourcès
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Commune of Fourcès |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Department | Gers |
| Arrondissement | Condom |
| Canton | Montréal |
| Intercommunality | none |
| Mayor | Daniel Bellot (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 64 m–180 m (avg. 65 m) |
| Land area¹ | 23.72 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
277 |
| - Density | 11/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 32133/ 32250 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Fourcès is a village and commune in southwestern France, in French called the Sud-Ouest, more precisely in Gascony, in the Gers département which is a part of the French region Midi-Pyrénées.
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[edit] Geography
The area of Fourcès amounts to 23,1 km², the density of population is 12,8 inhabitants per km². It is not far away from Castelnau-d'Auzan and Montréal.
[edit] Administration
The commune is a part of the canton of Montréal where at the last population count (1999) on a surface of more then 240 km² lived only 4.741 inhabitants.
[edit] Demography
The graph herewith indicates the evolution of the population. (source: INSEE). 
In 2005 there were 295 inhabitants (2005).
[edit] Character, monuments and history of the canton
Fourcès is a typical medieval bastide, a little village where the houses are built in a circle to allow a proper defence.
Because of its landscapes and its vineyards the Gers is now and then called by some the "Tuscany of France". The summers are long and warm; the winters are warm and short.
In the neighbourhood are numerous old castles, little medieval walled villages, small cities built around castles and "sacred" places, because the Via Podiensis and the Way of St. James of Compostela are going through the Montréal and left their traces.
- The arena for the course Landaise for exemple in Castelnau-d'Auzan.
- Old Armagnac caves.
- The bastide of Bretagne-d'Armagnac.
- The Bastide Gasconne of Fourcès.
- The city of Montréal-du-Gers with a medieval bastide.
- The city of Eauze and its Roman treasure.
- The fortified village of Larressingle.
- The Gallo-Roman villa of Séviac, in Montréal-du-Gers.
- The Ganaderia de Buros.
- The museum of D'Artagnan in Lupiac.
- The Spa of Barbotan-les-Thermes in Cazaubon.
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