Via Podiensis, a route to Santiago de Compostela that crosses the Gers
Via Podiensis, a route to Santiago de Compostela that crosses the Gers
172 m - Lectoure
Culture and Heritage
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Crossing the secular porch of the Hôtel de Bastard-Castaing, a building listed as a Historic Monument and now the Hôtel Restaurant de Bastard, you enter a place steeped in history. Built at the end of the 18th century, this beautiful and imposing mansion is located in the heart of the town of Lectoure, a stone's throw from the Cathedral. The building ensemble reveals a neoclassical and sober freestone architecture inspired by the Bordeaux current where the charm of the old has been partly preserved. A period chestnut staircase leads to cozy and comfortable rooms, sometimes opening onto the village, sometimes onto the garden and the valley.
The chef, Philippe Birckel, offers a lunch menu and a bistronomic menu for lunch and weekdays, and in the evenings and weekends, it's a more lively cuisine, high in flavor, with fine gourmet dishes, than he puts on a show. Customers sit down in cozy lounges with period parquet floors and large windows with large panes and curved transoms opening onto the garden, adding with the fabric stretched to the walls a touch of elegance instead of the 18th century style. In summer, meals are taken on the pleasant terrace set up in the interior courtyard, where a magnificent Pierre de Ronsard rosebush blooms.
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