Auch

Auch, with 22 thousand residents,¹ is located along the Gers River² in the Gers Department of the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. Its Sainte-Marie cathedral is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site honoring the pilgrimage routes in France toward Santiago de Compostela.

External references

Sainte-Marie cathedral, Auch, Gers Department, Midi-Pyrénées Region, France

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/9/2015.
2. The Gers flows into the Garonne, whose estuarine mouth, shared by the Dordogne, is the Gironde.