 Nogaro has a famous motor
racing circuit where all types of racing occur throughout the
year (33) 05 62 09 02 49. The bustling market town of Nogaro
(markets held on Wednesdays and Saturdays) offers cafés,
bars, restaurants a bakery, banks and supermarkets. Nogaro has
a small airfield suitable for the landing of light aircraft.
The Pyrenees are a range of
mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between
France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from France.
Andorra is between the two countries, set in the Pyrenees. The
Midi-Pyrenees is set on the highest part of the Pyrenean chain
with peaks reaching 9,850 feet. The region lies between Aquitaine
to the west and Languedoc-Roussillon to the east, and is about
the same size as Switzerland and Luxembourg put together. The
Midi-Pyrenees boasts a very wide range of vineyards in which
some of the best red and white wines of southwestern France are
produced. The Midi-Pyrenees scenery is shaped with many valleys
the main ones being the Dordogne, the Aveyron, the Tarn, the
Lot, and the Garonne, each with beautiful towns and chateaus.
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