Condom Travel Guide

 lotharlerch Says:  This city with the strange name (in English and many other languages, but not in French) is rather small. The exact number of inhabitants is - according to Wikipedia - 7251 (in 1999) and the German version of Wikipedia says that this number has remained almost exactly the... 

 lotharlerch Says:  The full official name of the city is Condom en Armagnac So you may expect to find not only a Condom Museum but also Le musée de l'Armagnac. This museum shows you much about the history of this great brandy and how it was and in principle still is produced. You find all... 

 kterkan Says:  This is a very interesting museum that showcases primative art from around the world. It was a relatively large and very impressive collection of this type of art. I'm not sure quite how far it is from Condom as we were driven there by friends, but it was not more than a... 

 mke1963 Says:  If the place de Saint-Pierre and the cathedral are at the very centre of Condom, the rue Gambetta is the heart of Condom.There are other shopping streets (west of the cathedral in the place Lion d'Or and the rue des Armuriers), but Rue Gambetta is the real shopping... 

 mke1963 Says:  Condom was required to remove its walls very early on, and much of the stone work was then used to pave the streets (see the base of the fountain/pool in the place Saint-Pierre). However, a small part of the ramparts can be seen in the small Jardin des Remparts, near the... 

 mke1963 Says:  The enterprising mayor of Condom decided to capitalise on Condom's legendary name, and opened the Musée du Preservatif in June 2005 (as a temporary exhibition until September only), after it had been in the planning for several years. Many in the town are said to be unhappy... 

 mke1963 Says:  Housed in the old stables of the bishop's palace, the museum of the local eau-de-vie is worth a visit. I must admit that we have never been there in all the time we have lived in the area. One of the reasons is that many farms locally have equipment as old as can be seen in... 

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 mke1963 Says:  Origan has developed a reputation that pulls in diners from far and wide; not bad given that it is up a narrow alleyway, out of sight and out of mind of the day-trippers.It is simply essential to have a reservation here (and they don't open Sundays). If you turn up on spec,... 

 mke1963 Says:  The whole of this part of France is littered with dovecotes, as pigeons and doves have long been a staple food. Pigeon hunting is still a very, very serious sport here, especially on the eastern edges of the Landes forest in neighbouring Lot-et-Garonne.Almost every farm, in... 

 lotharlerch Says:  One important local custom is the distilling of the Armagnac - the other one the tasting. Unfortunately I had - despite of my charming travel company - to limit myself in this respect - because I was the driver. 

 mke1963 Says:  Cross over the bridge and pass the roundabout, forking to the left. On the left is now a huge dyke that obscures the view of the river from the road. The Hotel Continental on the right is one of the longest established hotels in Condom, but many older people apparently will... 

 mke1963 Says:  Most visitors wander around the cathedral and a few make it around the three routes prepared by the Tourism Bureau. Hardly any make it across to the newer part of the town on the left (west) bank of the Baise, which is a pity as this is an interesting part of the town that... 

 mke1963 Says:  It isn't working yet.Other than the obvious pain.....the text file if 6800 characters so has to be split into three sections!The text is losing some formatting.The intention is that you cu and paste into Notepad, save its as Condom.kml and then open it in Google...